Rapid7’s Exposure Command product is a cybersecurity solution designed to give organizations continuous visibility into their attack surface. It helps identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security risks across cloud, on-prem, and remote environments. The platform uses threat intelligence and context-aware risk scoring to focus remediation efforts on the most critical exposures. It integrates with existing workflows and tools to streamline security operations and improve overall resilience.
 

About the Team

The Exposure Command team is a newly established, cross-functional engineering group within Rapid7, focused on building unified, data-rich exposure management experiences. This team is central to enabling customers to prioritize and act on security insights across all of their tools and technologies from a single intuitive and integrated interface. It is an exciting opportunity to shape foundational capabilities that will integrate and drive value throughout our platform.

About the Role

As Engineering Manager for the Exposure Command team, you will play a critical leadership role in a team that is central to Rapid7’s product vision. You will be responsible for leading a team of engineers, managing the day-to-day operations, and ensuring the delivery of high-impact features that unify and elevate the reporting experience across the platform.

You will support and coach your team, facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration, and ensure alignment with product and design partners. Your leadership will help us deliver customer-centric, scalable, and high-quality solutions.

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team by providing regular coaching, feedback, and career development support.

• Oversee day-to-day project execution, ensuring timely delivery of technical solutions and maintaining alignment with product roadmaps.

• Facilitate collaboration across UX, product management, and engineering to deliver cohesive, customer-focused features.

• Drive improvements in engineering quality by promoting best practices in testing, monitoring, performance and alerting.

• Act as a key liaison between stakeholders, ensuring transparency, progress tracking, and effective communication across teams.

The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:

Role-Specific Skills:

• Engineering Team Leadership
  Demonstrated ability to lead and grow software engineering teams, providing regular feedback, career development support, and fostering a strong team culture.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  Proven success working with product managers, UX designers, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive and customer-focused solutions.

• Project and Delivery Management
  Experience in managing technical project delivery within agile environments, using JIRA to track progress. As well as leading architectural discussions, and technical design sessions to define solutions and communicating status with stakeholders.

• Software Quality and Operational Excellence
  Strong understanding and application of engineering best practices such as automated testing, observability (monitoring/alerting), and CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust, scalable systems.

Critical Core Skills & Behaviors: 

• People Leadership & Development
  Ability to support, coach, and empower team members, actively fostering a psychologically safe and growth-oriented environment.

• Collaboration
  Demonstrated success in working across disciplines and teams to co-create effective solutions, resolve conflicts, and build alignment.

• Accountability & Strategic Execution
  Track record of delivering complex initiatives reliably and on time while maintaining high standards of quality and ownership.

• Customer Centricity
  Strong focus on understanding and solving for customer needs, with experience translating those needs into scalable engineering solutions

• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success. 

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 are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome. 

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope - just like we’ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us. 

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