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Qualys is seeking a Data Platform Architect to design, scale, and support our next-generation SaaS cloud security data platform and microservices infrastructure. In this role, you will architect, prototype, and optimize high-throughput data platform components processing millions of transactions per second across relational, NoSQL, graph, and message pipeline systems.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, microservices-based SaaS cloud data platform architectures.
- Optimize performance, high availability, security, and scalability across relational databases, NoSQL databases, search engines, graph databases, and message queues.
- Instrument Day 1 and Day 2 operations to manage cloud platform workloads processing millions of transactions per second.
- Review cloud-native architectures, facilitate cloud migration strategies, and maintain zero-downtime scalability.
- Partner with engineering, product management, and operations teams to align infrastructure features with corporate business objectives.
- Conduct technical knowledge-sharing sessions, proof-of-concept (POC) evaluations, and architectural reviews with application development teams.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in data platform architecture, software engineering, or enterprise big data engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and operating distributed databases (NoSQL, Relational, Search Engines, or Graph Databases) at scale.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying high-throughput message pipelines and distributed streaming systems.
- Proven experience building and scaling cloud-native SaaS architectures with high-availability requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Direct experience managing transaction workloads operating at scale (e.g., millions of operations per second or multi-terabyte daily volumes).
- Deep technical expertise in containerization, microservices deployment, and cloud-bursting strategies.
- Experience conducting architectural evaluations and leading brown-bag training sessions for development teams.
Skills Required
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field
- 12+ years hands-on experience developing SaaS-based software products and service-oriented deployments in public or private clouds
- Prior experience as a lead engineer or architect
- Prior experience with RDBMS systems and NoSQL databases
- Proven expertise in data-driven critical thinking and problem-solving
- Ability to debug complex software systems and team/process issues
- Demonstrated ability to write high-quality, production-ready code (readable, well-tested, with well-designed APIs)
- Experience with infrastructure orchestration and automation tools (Terraform)
- Hands-on experience using CI/CD pipelines
- Data platform design/build experience utilizing Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Ceph, Flink, Spark or similar technologies
- Java programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling
- Knowledge of JVM concepts (garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading)
- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- Ability to clearly articulate and communicate technical concepts within and across teams
- Built a data platform from the ground up
- Contributions to open-source technologies
- Experience with data encryption and data security standards
- Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Experience with HashiCorp technologies such as Consul and Vault
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
- In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
- Exposure to build tools such as Maven, Ant, or Gradle
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits costs are widely viewed as low for employees and dependents, with healthcare often described as almost fully paid for. Feedback suggests this affordability helps offset perceptions of lower base pay in some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are broad, including multiple medical plan options, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, and disability insurance. Benefits are described as “pretty amazing” or “great,” reinforcing perceived quality and coverage depth.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
