As a Software Engineer II at Rapid7, you will play a key role in designing and delivering high-quality software that helps secure our customers and drive business outcomes.
You’ll bring curiosity, problem-solving skills, and technical expertise to build impactful solutions while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
This is an opportunity to grow your craft, contribute to meaningful projects, and thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
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 Software Engineer II is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches.
This role will focus on developing the Nexpose Scan Engine.
The Scan Engine utilises network scanning techniques to discover customer assets and then runs vulnerability and/or policy assessments.
You will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced engineers while getting the opportunity to mentor others.
In this role, you will:
Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions
Participate in the design and planning of upcoming features, our Engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
When required, partner with internal teams such as UX and Product Management who work deeply with our product to ensure we are understanding our customers needs
Work towards developing a deep understanding of our products in order to best support our customers
Work with Practice specific technologies
The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:
A minimum of 2 years experience in software development using Java
Experience working with protocols from multiple layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model (e.g. Network, Transport, and Application) is nice to have
Decent analytical skills.
Comfortable debugging complex problems and providing creative solutions
Experience working with Unix tool sets, e.g. comfortable working on the command line
Comfortable working across multiple Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision-making
Excellent attention to detail
Demonstrable experience in delivering complex solutions to customers
Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills both within the team and cross-functionally
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.