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Brief Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to work on an exciting project focused on developing advanced Container Security Solutions.
Full Job Description:
We invite you to become part of our highly motivated engineering team and contribute to the development of cutting-edge Container Security Solutions. This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a new product offering from Qualys.
This position is based at our rapidly growing R&D center in Pune, India, which is an integral part of our global, multi-continent engineering organization.
Responsibilities:
As part of a dynamic team of engineers and architects, you will:
- Design, prototype, develop, and support highly scalable SaaS-based security solutions.
- Collaborate on architecture and feature design for complex software systems.
- Ensure high-quality deliverables through rigorous testing and performance optimization.
Required Technical Skills:
- 3+ years of hands-on software engineer, developing complex system in modern C++ and GoLang programming languages.
- Proficient on Linux internals and security.
- Hands-on experience with Linux Low Level and Kernel.
- Strong proficiency in C++ and GoLang on Linux platforms.
- In-depth knowledge of Containers, Kubernetes, and various container runtimes.
- Previous experience with eBPF and ptrace is required.
- Previous experience with security-oriented development - advantage.
- Experience in design, prototyping, development, testing, and performance profiling.
- Hands-on experience with Git, JIRA, Jenkins, and similar development tools.
Soft Skills & Attributes:
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivering assigned products, components, and features.
- Demonstrated commitment to quality and experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Proven ability to work on complex projects with multiple features and short release cycles.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Self-driven and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Collaborative team player with a positive, humble attitude.
- Passion for raising the quality bar across products, teams, and the engineering organization.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of hands-on software engineer experience
- Proficient in C++ and GoLang
- Hands-on experience with Linux internals and security
- In-depth knowledge of Containers and Kubernetes
- Experience with eBPF and ptrace
- Experience in design, prototyping, development, and performance profiling
- Experience with Git, JIRA, Jenkins
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
