Rapid7 Senior Principal Software Engineer 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

314532846

The role can be thought of from three different angles. The skills you will beed to possess as an engineer, the leadership of fellow engineers and projects and processes across the company, and the impact which you will have on our architecture, capabilities and ultimately our business.

Skills

• Demonstrate significant subject-matter expertise in Rapid7’s business and use cases and designs architectures that support them

• Creates architecture that enables many potential futures without knowing exactly what the future is

• Anticipate broad technical change and ensure Rapid7 is always ahead of the curve

• Understand deeply the entire architecture for the Rapid7 platform and anticipate scaling and reliability limits, and execute on solutions

Leadership

• Lead the conversations internally about the direction of major areas of the technology, drives wide-team consensus to the adoption of this direction, and use this direction to inspire engineers

• Be seen as a role model and mentor to every technical member of the Rapid7 engineering organization

• Identify new strategic initiatives or technical vision and create a strategy to realize them across functional areas.

• Promote a culture of good design and architecture, with an openness to new ideas/technologies and innovation

• Work with senior management to align technical and organisational/commercial goals.

Impact

• Act as an architect across multiple product lines or platform services, with a focus on cloud capabilities

• Use deep technical expertise and experience to successfully lead architecture of new product lines and major capabilities from inception to delivery.

• Play a key role in developing multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business that encompass multiple systems and teams across the Platform