Senior Software Engineer with focus on SRE

As a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, you will be a key contributor in ensuring the reliability, performance, and operational maturity of the SOAR platform. While you are part of the Product and Engineering team, your primary function will be on the operational side of the software development lifecycle, driving automation and improving infrastructure.

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 11,000 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 centre 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, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including AWS, Terraform, Golang, Java, just to name a few.

Join our engineering team to 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

You will be 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 have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst getting the opportunity to mentor others. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Own, design, and implement the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy for the team, specifically managing and provisioning critical AWS resources (e.g., RDS Clusters, EKS/Compute, networking) using Terraform.
• Design and implement robust automation for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance, including managing and optimizing Jenkins jobs and integrating with GitHub pipelines.
• Enhance and maintain observability for our services by managing and configuring monitoring platforms like Grafana clusters and other necessary tooling.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues, including triage and correction of networking issues such as ingress routing configurations.
• Collaborate with product-focused engineers by contributing clean, well-architected code to our core services, primarily in Go or Java, to build deeper operational understanding and tooling.
• Act as a resident expert on operational best practices, security, and cloud architecture, driving a culture of high quality and reliability within the team.

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in software development using one of Golang, Java, Kotlin or C#
• Experience with cloud technologies like AWS or GCP
• Experience with Terraform and Jenkins
• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
• Solid communicator with the ability to clearly convey objectives and rationale whilst fostering commitment from others both within the team and cross functionally
• Brings a customer-first mindset to engineering, and integrates customer impact into everyday decision making
• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success

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

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.