Rapid7 Senior Software Engineer - Golang / Open-source platform Velociraptor 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

293645675

Job Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be engaging with the Velociraptor open source community, shaping future direction and design in maintaining this popular open source project. A large part of the role is advocacy and knowledge sharing with external partners, such as conferences, blog posts etc.

In this role, you will also have the opportunity to interact with and support our customers in real time, in their use of Velociraptor. Feeding feedback back into development of the open source tool.

Requirements:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong, creative problem solving ability.

• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers.

• Attitude to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment

• Ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions

• A drive for continuous delivery.

• High proficiency with Golang for low level systems programming. Some familiarity with React/JS/HTML/CSS would help.

• Experience contributing to open source communities on GitHub or similar platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Be passionate about the development of others, always be ready to learn, and motivated to mentor others.

• Be hands-on in the design, build, maintenance, and release of our platform offerings.

• Design, build and manage systems ingesting and querying data volumes in excess of millions of requests per second.

• Be an advocate for upcoming features, across the organization, and with customers, we expect our engineers to be first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process.

• Work with balanced teams which have embedded Product Designers and Product Managers.

• Consult and support the Velociraptor open source community, as well our Rapid7 Cloud Development on future enhancements and integration.