We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with an interest in distributed systems, cloud computing and the architecture of large-scale systems. The SRE will ensure our InsightIDR services have high reliability and uptime necessary to meet our customers’ needs.

About the Team​

Our InsightIDR product helps identify and address key cybersecurity risks to our customers. We apply AI, ML, threat intelligence, and BI to event sources, including desktops, servers, network switches, firewalls, cloud services, directory servers, DHCP servers, and SIEMs in order to distill hundreds or thousands of daily events per customer into the few real, high priority threats that need attention. Our systems ingest large amounts of data that need to be highly available and performant at all times. 

About the Role

As SRE, you will work closely with our engineering team and partner teams throughout Rapid7 to help solve challenging problems at a massive scale.

In this role, you will:

• Support services before they go live through activities such as design, deployment, migration strategy, monitoring, and playbook reviews  

• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health

• Ensure systems are scalable, apply automation, driving service and infrastructure improvements

• Troubleshoot production issues and liaise with relevant Engineering or Infrastructure teams to find a resolution

• Participate in on-call support, and incident response follow-ups such as post-mortems

• Work closely with Engineering teams, Architecture, Infrastructure and Product teams to improve the lifecycle of the InsightIDR services - from inception, design, deployment, operations, monitoring, security, upgrade and maintenance

• Continuously develop and refine your own skill set

Send us your CV if you have:

• 3+ years of experience in Unix/Linux systems, IP networking, database operations and performance optimization

• Experience programming in Python or Shell scripting, knowledge of Git

• Knowledge of AWS cloud and its services like EC2, RDS, S3, etc, experience in Cloud operations

• Knowledge of monitoring systems

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM-related field, or 3+ years industry experience

Strong plus if you heard about:

• Kubernetes and related technologies like Docker etc.

• IaC, preferably Terraform

• Observability approaches

• ELK stack

• RESTFul architectures

• CI/CD

• SRE mindset

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences.  If you feel you have required experience, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact.

Here, we’re building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10,000 global customers ahead of whatever’s next.

Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world’s biggest security challenges.