The Senior Principal Software Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience.  You will be working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success.

About the team:

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world. 

The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it’s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few. 

InsightCloudSec is Rapid7’s leading Cloud Security solution and a part of the broader Rapid7 product portfolio. It offers customers a fully-integrated set of tools to secure their cloud platforms in a single solution. Our customers use the product to identify and remediate cloud misconfigurations and risk across multiple areas, including CSPM, IAM risk, IaC scanning and container vulnerability scanning. 

We’re focused on emerging threats, and keeping pace with the innovation delivered by Cloud Security Providers to ensure our customers stay secure.

The role can be thought of from three different angles. The skills you will beed to possess as an engineer, the leadership of fellow engineers and projects and processes across the company, and the impact which you will have on our architecture, capabilities and ultimately our business.

Skills

• Demonstrate significant subject-matter expertise in Rapid7’s business and use cases and designs architectures that support them

• Creates architecture that enables many potential futures without knowing exactly what the future is

• Anticipate broad technical change and ensure Rapid7 is always ahead of the curve

• Understand deeply the entire architecture for the Rapid7 platform and anticipate scaling and reliability limits, and execute on solutions

Leadership

• Lead the conversations internally about the direction of major areas of the technology, drives wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and use this direction to inspire engineers

• Be seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the Rapid7 engineering organization

• Identify new strategic initiatives or technical vision and create a strategy to realize them across functional areas.

• Promote a culture of good design and architecture, with an openness to new ideas/technologies and innovation

• Work with senior management to align technical and organisational/commercial goals.

Impact

• Act as an architect across multiple product lines or platform services, with a focus on cloud capabilities

• Use deep technical expertise and experience to successfully lead architecture of new product lines and major capabilities from inception to delivery.

• Play a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business that encompass multiple systems and teams across the Platform

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

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