Senior Backend Engineer - Python / Threat Intelligence

Are you ready to join a team that's building the future of threat intelligence? Our Prague-based team is dedicated to building a solution that empowers security teams to fight the most relevant threats with speed.
About the Team
Our Prague-based Collections Team is a data collection engineering team within Rapid7's Threat Intelligence division. Their core responsibility is building and maintaining automated systems that gather cyber threat intelligence from diverse sources across the internet and dark web. These systems feed raw threat data into the broader Threat Intelligence platform, ensuring Rapid7's products have comprehensive, timely, and high-quality intelligence from as many sources as possible.
About the role
As a Senior Full-stack Engineer your primary responsibility will be to contribute to improving our established products, as well as building new products from scratch. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features and make well-reasoned decisions and tradeoffs in your areas of expertise
• Develop, test, and deploy high-quality, efficient code across the full stack, adhering to best practices and coding standards
• Lead AI Research & POCs to find innovative solutions for threat intelligence.
• Take an active role in high-level architectural thinking, working with both legacy code and greenfield projects.
• Investigate and resolve the most complex system defects and production issues, performing root cause analysis to implement permanent technical solutions
• Partner with internal teams to ensure we are understanding and delighting our customers.

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• A minimum of 5 years of software development experience in a production environment with deep proficiency in Backend technologies (Python), including Python libraries (eg. SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, Playwright, Pytest), API design, Databases, and Microservices.
• Experience with Cloud computing (e.g., GCP, AWS, or similar).
• Experience with DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, etc.).
• Experience with Databases (eg. ElasticSearch, Firestore, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
• Experience with modern Frontend frameworks is a plus.
• Problem Solving: Strong creative problem-solving skills with a focus on system design and performance optimization.
• Attention to Detail: Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to high-quality technical execution.
• AI Proficiency: Hands-on approach to AI Research and the ability to integrate AI into production environments.
• Passionate and responsible team player with strong communication skills.
• You aren't afraid to challenge the status quo, bringing innovative thinking and a fresh perspective to complex problems
• Understanding of the full lifecycle development process, including business and functional requirements, developing technical designs, implementation of scalable solutions, and object-oriented design.
• You are an active driver of change. You thrive in high-growth environments and are eager to lead the team through technical shifts
• 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.
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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 11,500+ 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.