Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Job Summary
We’re seeking an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer to join our Advisory Services engineering team. This role is focused on designing and building applications, data pipelines, and dashboards that power our cybersecurity advisory offerings. You will work at the intersection of cloud, data engineering, and cybersecurity analytics, helping us model attack paths, recommend compensating controls, and deliver high-impact insights to our customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build data ingestion pipelines to pull security and asset data (e.g., from Qualys APIs) into cloud storage and graph databases.
- Develop and maintain graph-based attack path models and compensating control recommendation engines.
- Build full stack applications — APIs, microservices, and dashboards — to deliver insights to analysts and customers.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity SMEs to translate risk and attack path concepts into actionable software solutions.
- Automate reporting, control simulations, and advisory workflows to reduce manual analyst effort.
- Ensure all solutions meet cybersecurity, scalability, and compliance standards.
- Stay current with industry trends in cloud, graph analytics, data streaming, and cybersecurity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong skills in:
- Java (SpringBoot) and/or Python
- React/TypeScript or a similar modern front-end framework
- AWS services (S3, Lambda, Glue, Neptune/other DBs)
- Kafka or other data streaming technologies
- Familiarity with cybersecurity principles (e.g., vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, attack techniques).
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Agile development practices.
Good to Have
- Knowledge of graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune) and graph analytics frameworks.
- Experience integrating with Qualys APIs or other security platforms.
- DevOps/automation skills (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform/CDK, Jenkins).
- Experience with machine learning (PyTorch, SageMaker) for analytics or recommendation systems.
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
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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
