Rapid7 - Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security

Description :

Role : Senior Software Engineer Cloud Security (CSPM)

About the Role :

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help design and build the systems that power our cloud security capabilities. Your primary focus will be delivering high-quality, scalable services that evaluate cloud environments and surface meaningful risk to customers.

You will be a strong individual contributor while also mentoring others and raising engineering standards within the team.

Specifically, you will :

- Design, build, and maintain well-architected services, writing clean, maintainable code and making sound design tradeoffs

- Contribute actively to feature design and planning, partnering with Product and UX to shape practical, scalable solutions

- Build and enhance cloud-native systems that process and analyze cloud configuration data at scale

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance

- Develop a deep understanding of our platform and customer use cases

- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and day-to-day collaboration

The skills youll bring include :

- 5+ years of software development experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Python or a similar language

- Experience building backend services or distributed systems in a cloud-native environment

- Strong problem-solving ability and sound engineering judgment

- Demonstrated experience delivering complex features into production systems

- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, and design

- Clear written and verbal communication skills

- Attention to detail and a strong focus on quality

- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, or AliCloud is highly desirable

- Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.