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Job Description
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
- Lead the development initiative for building 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
- 10 years development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products
- 5 years experience with managing teams of engineers.
- 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 programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.
- 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
Top Skills
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
