Rapid7 - Senior Software Engineer - Python

About the Role:

The Senior Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Coverage team will play a pivotal role in expanding the Rapid7 coverage portfolio to provide customers with reliable and accurate data. A Senior Software Engineer will help to drive technical excellence by improving automation frameworks, enhancing coverage release pipelines, and contributing to growth and prioritization in an ever-evolving security landscape. In addition to hands-on development, they will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and contribute to roadmap planning.

In this role, you will :

- Build, maintain, and release high-quality vulnerability content

- Build, maintain and release new services and plugins for generating new vulnerability content

- Be involved in improving our automation pipeline for recurring coverage

- Partner with technical leaders and other team members to drive improvements with our vulnerability coverage portfolio

- Provide mentoring and coaching to junior engineers

The skills youll bring include :

- A minimum of 5-6 years experience in software development with Python

- Experience working with Java and Ruby is a plus

- Experience with Cloud based deployments e.g. AWS / GCP / Azure

- Experience with IaC e.g. Terraform / Ansible

- Experience with virtualization and containers

- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins and proficiency with version control systems such as GitHub

- BEng, BSc or related technical field

- Ability to organize and drive a project within the team

- Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor junior team members

- 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

- Strong creative problem solving skills

- Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

- Experience with cloud services and infrastructure such as AWS would be advantageous