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Senior Director, Engineering
We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Senior Director, Engineering to work on Qualys' next-generation products. Working with multiple teams of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security services. This is a great opportunity to build Qualys' next generation micro-services based products that process over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leveraging open source and proprietary technologies.
The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building large, scalable SaaS products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and a fantastic manager of people.
Responsibilities
*Develop best-in-class Qualys' next-generation products.
*Passionate about building world class teams that excel at developing innovative Security SaaS products.
*Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers.
*Create high-performance APIs, libraries and microservices that scale to meet/exceed the demands of processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day.
*Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS services in partnership with the SRE and operations teams.
*Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before they're needed.
*Ensure collaboration, communication, and proper expectation setting across teams.
*Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the products developed by the team.
*Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies.
*Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future.
*Participate in architecture reviews related to performance and scalability of products.
Requirements
*15+ years hands-on development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products and solutions for service-oriented deployments in public (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.) or private clouds.
*Significant experience with managing global engineer teams.
*Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
*Strong Java/C++ programming skills.
*Object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing & profiling.
*Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc.Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners.
*Messaging middleware using JMS, AMQP, Kafka, NATS, etc.
*In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.
*Persistence in RDBMS or NoSQL Systems.
*Applied principles of site reliability engineering for monitoring and alerting of applications.
*Strong analytical and debugging skills.
*Strong in data structures and algorithms.
*BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math or related field.
*Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle).
*Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra).
Bonus Points If You Have
*Built Security services from the ground up.
*Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
*Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus.
*Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant.
*Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible.
*In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
*Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds.
Skills Required
- 15+ years of hands-on software development experience, including SaaS products and public or private cloud deployments
- Significant experience managing global engineering teams
- Ability to lead technical discussions and build consensus on architecture, design, code reviews, and release processes
- Strong Java and C++ programming skills
- Experience with object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, and profiling
- Knowledge of JVM concepts, including garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, and class loading
- Experience building scalable SaaS platforms using microservices or distributed-systems architectures and RESTful APIs
- Experience with messaging middleware such as JMS, AMQP, Kafka, or NATS
- Experience with in-memory caching systems such as Redis or Memcached
- Experience with RDBMS or NoSQL persistence systems
- Applied site reliability engineering principles for application monitoring and alerting
- Strong analytical, debugging, data structures, and algorithms skills
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience with RDBMS systems, preferably Oracle
- Experience with NoSQL databases, preferably Cassandra
- Experience building security services from the ground up
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
- Experience with HashiCorp technologies including Consul, Vault, Terraform, or Vagrant
- Experience with Chef, Puppet, or Ansible
- In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
- Exposure to Maven, Ant, or Gradle
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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








