Rapid7 - Senior Software Engineer - Python
Posted on: 15/10/2025
Job Description
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 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 :
- 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
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Functional Area
Backend Development
Job Code
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