Rapid7 Principal Software Engineer 

United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Belfast 

543596910

Rarely does an opportunity come to market that will allow a candidate to have such an influential role in the strategic direction of an organization like Rapid7. There will be many challenges such as designing a system to scale to 500+ integrations for 10k+ users, ingesting quantities of data currently uncharted, while creating an enterprise level data and api ecosystem with resilience and extensibility. This is a very high impact, high growth role and one of the most exciting engineering opportunities at Rapid7.

About the Role

You'll work directly with, but not limited to, the following technologies:

Java 21, Spring, Reactor, AWS (EC2, VPC networking, S3, SQS, SNS, etc.), FoundationDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub

In this role, you will:

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

• Be hands-on in the design, build, maintenance, and release of an API tier commensurate with the expectations of powering the next generation of Rapid7 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 organisation, 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.

The skills you'll bring include:

• 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.

• Expert level experience with one of Java, Go, C#.

• A deep understanding of container orchestration platforms including K8s.

• Extensive experience with SaaS platforms and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP and Azure).

Nice to haves:

• Experience with any of the following

  • FoundationDB

  • GraphQL

  • Trino/Presto data-mesh.