Rapid7 Lead Software Engineer 

United Kingdom 

327153725

Metasploit and its related projects are built with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but Metasploit also incorporates many other languages. You can fit so many exploits in this thing.

About the Role

As a lead engineer, you’ll mentor and grow more junior developers in addition to writing (or removing!) code yourself. You’ll help the team work toward sprint goals on a day-to-day basis and bring strong engineering principles to bear on projects from architecture through implementation.

In this role, you will:

The skills you’ll bring include:

• Ability to learn and evaluate new technologies quickly, digging into code to find answers. You’re comfortable with experimentation and uncertainty; not everything is spelled out, but everything is discoverable!

• Interest in or experience with offensive security technologies and use cases.

• Readiness to mentor and develop junior engineers, leading with empathy and strong user focus.

• Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Ruby doesn’t necessarily need to be your primary language, but it helps to be able to understand and extend the techniques that Metasploit embodies.

• Conversant in Git-based project development. You can review, merge, and rebase expertly, and can coach others on Git as needed.

• Understanding of APIs, modern languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Go), interprocess communication, and modern networking and deployment tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Vagrant, Docker)

• We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy — apply today.