Rapid7 Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Texas, Austin 

96885089

As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll create, set and influence the technical direction of our software and architecture through direct hands-on development by designing effective, scalable architectures for their products/services’ teams areas of ownership. You are an innovative, self-motivated contributor who takes on research and proposes major new technologies within a product line. By fostering relationships with cross-functional partners, you will contribute to the development of technical strategy. You’ll help grow other software engineers through technical mentorship and guidance.

In this role, you will:

• Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will recognize and makes technical trade-offs with respect to your team’s product/components within the whole Rapid7 platform

• Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process

• When required, partner with internal teams such as UX and Product Management who work deeply with our product to ensure we are understanding our customers needs

• Deeply understand our products and make high impact decisions to support our customers

• Work with Practice specific technologies

The skills you’ll bring include:

• A minimum of 12 years experience in software development using Java or other equivalent programming languages

• Extensive experience in cloud based architectures and micro services design

• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team

• The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment

• Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions

• Strong creative problem solving skills

• Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

• Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making

• Excellent attention to detail

• Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers

• Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns