Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
As part of the Qualys Engineering team, you will design and build highly scalable, microservices-based web applications powered by robust Java backend services and modern frontend technologies. You’ll work across the stack—leveraging technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Redis, and React.js—to deliver secure, performant, and user-friendly solutions at scale.
You will collaborate closely with product managers and cross-functional engineering teams to translate customer needs into intuitive, cross-browser web experiences with rich user interactions. At Qualys, we strive to meet today’s web standards while anticipating the future of rich internet applications—ensuring our customers benefit from industry-leading usability, efficiency, and reliability.
Performance, scalability, and security are at the core of everything you build.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deliver web-based applications and backend services
- Build and ship new features and enhancements in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams to refine and implement product requirements
- Mentor and guide team members on web development, backend design, and system architecture
- Continuously evaluate and improve architecture, performance, scalability, and user experience
- Apply object-oriented design principles and best practices (e.g., SOLID, DRY)
- Research emerging technologies and contribute to their adoption in new or existing products
Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience in Java backend development
- Strong proficiency in Java (8/11/17), Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RESTful APIs
- Hands-on experience with distributed event streaming platforms such as Kafka
- Working knowledge of Elasticsearch
- Experience with distributed caching systems (e.g., Redis)
- Exposure to Oracle databases
- Solid understanding of data structures and distributed systems
Good to Have
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with React.js and Redux
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
