The Staff Software Engineer leads technical strategy, designs scalable systems, mentors engineers, and collaborates with management to meet business goals.
About the Role
The Senior Software Engineer is a key technical contributor who not only implements features but drives the technical direction and design within the team. You will be responsible for tackling the most challenging technical problems, ensuring the scalability and reliability of our services, and elevating the technical skills of those around you.
In this role, you will:
The skills you'll bring include:
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope just like we' ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you 're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.
The Senior Software Engineer is a key technical contributor who not only implements features but drives the technical direction and design within the team. You will be responsible for tackling the most challenging technical problems, ensuring the scalability and reliability of our services, and elevating the technical skills of those around you.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex, high-impact features and services, ensuring they are scalable, highly available, and secure.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the team's core services, driving Core Java best practices and enforcing high code quality standards.
- Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers on technical design, implementation, and Core Java development standards.
- Collaborate with other Senior Engineers and Architects to define technical solutions and interfaces across multiple services.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and contribute to improving engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence.
- Drive the resolution of complex production issues, performing root cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures.
The skills you'll bring include:
- A minimum of 5+ years experience in software development, with deep expertise in Python, Core Java and object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
- Ability to work in Python APIs, FastAPI, Django and experience using Core Java libraries and features (e.g., Concurrency, Collections, I/O). proven ability to quickly learn and contribute in Python development for scripting, tooling, or service implementation.
- Expertise with Core Java features, data structures, and advanced libraries (e.g., NIO, advanced concurrency primitives, and diagnostic tools).
- Solid experience with dependency management (Maven/Gradle) and testing frameworks (JUnit/TestNG).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.) and proficiency with version control systems (GitHub/GitLab).
- Experience with Cloud Infrastructure such as AWS / GCP / Azure is good to have.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical designs and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Mentors teammates in effective use of Copilot/LLM-driven development practices, improving overall team productivity.
- Designs safe, robust, and testable GenAI-powered features
- A passion for mentoring, driving technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope just like we' ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you 're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
CloudFormation
Core Java
GCP
Genai
Python
Terraform
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