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Qualys is a leading provider of vulnerability management and compliance cloud solutions, trusted by thousands of organizations around the globe. We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team and contribute to the design and development of cutting-edge, scalable, and secure software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build reliable REST APIs, distributed services, and cloud-native applications for large-scale SaaS environments.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and well-tested code with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Design and develop scalable backend services, platform components, and middleware systems using Java and related technologies.
- Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical decision-making for platform services.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards, and mentor junior engineers where appropriate.
- Explore and adopt modern engineering productivity practices and AI-assisted development tools where applicable.
- 4–6 years of software development experience.
- Strong Java programming skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.
- Experience building REST APIs, microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar platforms.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Good understanding of scalable, resilient, observable, and production-grade distributed systems.
Skills Required
- 4-6 years of software development experience
- Strong Java programming skills
- Understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design
- Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and analytical problem-solving skills
- Understanding of scalable, resilient, observable, production-grade distributed systems
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qualys and has not been reviewed or approved by Qualys.
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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
