As a Software Engineer I, you will participate in the development of new features for your team, working with cutting edge technologies and involved in the process end to end. You will bring a customer centric approach with a curiosity and passion for continuous learning. You will be provided with coaching and support to help you further develop your skills to reach your full potential.
About the Team
The Platform Delivery team is a high-profile group that supports all Rapid7 products through devops tooling and cloud operations. We work directly with developers to ensure high uptime of our SaaS products. We strive to maintain a DevOps culture, empowering development while promoting security and reliability. We're a global team with a local focus working to bring the next generation of security solutions to our customers.
The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it's our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few.
About the Role
The Software Engineer I is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. You will be given the time to continue to develop your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers.
In this role, you will:
- Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions
- Participate in the design and planning of upcoming features, our Engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
- Work towards developing a deep understanding of our products in order to best support our customers
- Engage with other engineering teams to improve the lifecycle of services on our platform - from design to deployment to operation and maintenance
- Optimize our SaaS platform for performance and cost effectiveness
- Monitor and scale distributed services in AWS and clustered datastores such as Cassandra
- Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems
- Automate infrastructure through Terraform, ansible, and Docker/Kubernetes
The skills you'll bring include:
- Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java
- AWS, Azure or GCP experience would be desirable
- Passionate about developer experiences
- Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn
- The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
- Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
- Strong creative problem solving skills
- Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally
- Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making
- Excellent attention to detail
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.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research-using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what's next.
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What We Do
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 11,000+ 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.
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Why Work With Us
With our products, research, and open source communities, we’re building a secure digital future for everyone. This means constantly learning and evolving in an industry that’s anything but stagnant. You’ll be faced with tough challenges, and given the support to find creative solutions that drive our business, and your career forward.
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