Rapid7 Manager Software Engineering - DevOps 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

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We are expanding our Global footprint into Prague and as we build out our Product & Engineering teams, we are looking for a Manager of Software Engineering. In this role you'll lead our DevOps team in Prague and deliver state-of-the-art cloud applications hosted in AWS. As a manager in our Platform Delivery team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to a high-profile group that plays a critical role in the organization. This team works cross-functionally across engineering departments to ensure the timely release of multiple products. You will directly supervise Prague-based individual contributors and help set priorities for the team. Additionally, you’ll still have plenty of time for hands-on contribution to our SaaS platform.

What does your day-to-day look like?

• Lead a 4-5 person DevOps team to continuously improve our DevOps tooling and SaaS environments

• Define and prioritize tasks

• Guide engineering staff on best practices

• Monitor stability and performance of our cloud platform

• Collaborate with other teams to deliver software running on AWS

• Create and contribute to open source tooling such ansible to ship software better and faster

• Provide documentation and training for tooling

Who are you?

• At least 3 years experience working with a SaaS platform

• Collaborates well in a team environment

• Systematic problem-solving approach

• Likes to automate things

• Wants to make life easier for our development teams

• Proficient programmer in at least one of: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java

• Experience training and mentoring across teams

• Desire to constantly expand technology skill set

What does our Software Stack look like?

• A lot of our tools are written in Python and Ruby

• Our development teams mostly use Java

• We manage our SaaS infrastructure on AWS using Terraform

• We use Spinnaker and Ansible to deploy apps to EC2

• We use Kubernetes to host a significant portion of our SaaS platform

• We use a wide variety of storage backends, such as Redis, PostgreSQL & Cassandra

• We use Jenkins to build everything, creating jobs via the Jobs DSL and Jenkins Pipelines to codify the entire build and deploy process