Senior Software Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to work on Qualys’ next-generation Platform & Middleware. Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting a highly scalable SaaS based cloud security platform. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys’ next generation microservices based technology platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.  

Responsibilities

• Co-develop Qualys’ best-in-class next-generation SaaS applications
• 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
• Produce high quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future
• Research, evaluate and adopt next generation technologies

 Requirements

• 5+ years as a hands-on engineer developing SaaS based software products and solutions for service-oriented deployments in public (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.) or private clouds.
• Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using:
  • RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners
  • Messaging middleware using JMS, Kafka etc.
  • In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.
• Strong Java programming skills including object oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.
• Understand data structures and algorithms
• Expertise with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and related CI/CD tools
• Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate in Computer Science or equivalent