Senior Software Engineer - Golang / Open-source platform - Velociraptor

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be engaging with the Velociraptor open source community, shaping future direction and design in maintaining this popular open source project. A large part of the role is advocacy and knowledge sharing with external partners, such as conferences, blog posts etc. 

Velociraptor is a leading open source endpoint visibility tool (https://docs.velociraptor.app). The team engages with the open source community, researching and innovating novel solutions in DFIR and information security. The team also works with Rapid7’s wider Insight Platform that boasts industry-leading vulnerability management, application security, cloud security, threat detection, incident response, and security automation products. 

In this role, you will also have the opportunity to interact with and support our customers in real time, in their use of Velociraptor. Feeding feedback back into development of the open source tool. 

Outside of your team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the broader Rapid7 engineering community, driving platform best practices and knowledge sharing, whilst also working on and contributing to open source tools and projects.  

Requirements: 

Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Strong, creative problem solving ability. 

Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers. 

Attitude to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment 

Ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions 

A drive for continuous delivery. 

High proficiency with Golang for low level systems programming. Some familiarity with React/JS/HTML/CSS would help. Experience contributing to open source communities on GitHub or similar platforms.
High proficiency with Java, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Kafka, Go and AWS Services maintained via Terraform

Responsibilities: 

Be passionate about the development of others, always be ready to learn, and motivated to mentor others. 

Be hands-on in the design, build, maintenance, and release of our platform offerings. 

Design, build and manage systems ingesting and querying data volumes in excess of millions of requests per second. 

Be an advocate for upcoming features, across the organization, and with customers, we expect our engineers to be first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process. 

Work with balanced teams which have embedded Product Designers and Product Managers. 

Consult and support the Velociraptor open source community, as well our Rapid7 Cloud Development on future enhancements and integration.

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