Software Engineer II - Golang

This is an exciting opportunity to be one of the first hires in the Endpoint group for Rapid7 in Prague, supporting our growth strategy in a culture that supports trying new approaches and continuous learning, building products protecting tens millions of endpoints .

We are expanding our Global footprint into Prague and as we build out our Product & Engineering teams, we are looking for Software Engineers. As a Software Engineer II, you will take ownership of the development of new features, enhancing existing ones, while working with cutting edge technologies and owning this 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

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect and prevent 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.

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 center 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 and prevention, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including C++, Go, Python, Java and AWS just to name a few.

About the role

Software Engineer II is a part of our Endpoint Engineering group who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. You will be working as part of a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer security. 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 a top-notch endpoint security solution. Our team is responsible for building the endpoint components deployed on multiple platforms including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

• Assist with developing solutions and support in implementing our core features. Features will cross-cut most OS subsystems such as file system, memory, processes and networking. Features are also built in a way that they will have shared components across multiple platforms. 

• Develop efficiently, while maximizing performance and minimizing costs, making sure high standards are being followed when it comes to design, quality, security, performance, and unit and component testing.

How you’ll contribute:

• Extend our existing codebase and test suites utilizing Go, also C++ and other tools as appropriate.

• Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively across multiple teams.

• Build elegant, robust, and reliable solutions for complex technical problems.

• Troubleshoot issues within the product when necessary, assisting customer support.

• Leverage your understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like secure coding, testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean and our deliverables are of high quality.

• Be an energetic “self-starter” who is empowered to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and as part of a team.

We want you to be as successful as possible! Here's what you should have:

• A minimum of 2 years experience in software development

• Team player – able to communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a globally distributed team.

• Preferred Requirements

  • OS system expertise for core concepts and subsystems.

  • Knowledge in Security and secure software development

  • Prior experience developing endpoint software.

  • Background in scalable, light-weight and highly performing systems.

  • Understanding of multi-threaded and multi-processed concurrent systems development in any of our supported platforms, with an interest to grow skills in all of them.