Lead Software Engineer

About the Team

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats
and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic
expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world.
Join us in fortifying digital resilience by becoming a part of our engineering team working on InsightVM. Our Intelligent Vulnerability Management solution
ensures real-time visibility, risk prioritization, and automated remediation. Experience enhanced security, operational efficiency, and compliance assurance.
Help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.

About the Role

The Lead Software Engineer 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 working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success. You will have the
opportunity to further enhance your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst mentoring others.
Our Terraform-described stack runs in AWS, coded mostly in Java, and built over a variety of data persistence and queue technologies including SNS/SQS,
S3, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL-flavored RDS, Cassandra, and DynamoDB.

In this role you will:

• Lead a team of talented engineers to design, implement, release, and monitor production code changes at massive scale in a continuous deployment fashion
• Scopes and stages work into well-defined milestones
• Act as a scrum master for the team
• Mentoring and coaching team members
• Collaborate with other teams within InsightIDR and products within Rapid7 to design integration touchpoints and features which span multiple
• development teams
• Key contributor to architecture/execution of major component(s) from conception to release

What you should bring:

• Experience running a team of multiple engineers
• A demonstrable passion for the craft of software development
• A history demonstrating a team-based approach to problem solving
• Experience defining contracts for coordinating development of software projects across multiple teams
• Experience in cloud-based architecture
• A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for the quality of the software you create
• Empathy for our users and the Rapid7 mission
• A minimum of 8 years experience in software development, including active or recent Java experience

Even better if you have:

• Interest and/or experience in the security industry

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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