Rapid7 Software Engineering Manager 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

437771060

About the Role

As a software engineering manager, you’ll mentor and grow more junior developers in addition to writing code yourself. We’re looking for a skilled, collaborative manager to operate as a player/coach, directly contributing to sprint goals on a day-to-day basis and bringing strong engineering principles to bear on projects from architecture through implementation. You’ll also have the opportunity to own and drive offensive security engineering strategy for Rapid7 alongside several other tenured technical leaders who happen to be some of the best hacker-developers in the business.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an anchor and founding member of Rapid7’s Prague-based offensive security engineering team, helping Rapid7 leadership develop and execute hiring strategy for the R+D arm of the company. You’ll help lead hiring and onboarding efforts for new offensive security engineers and other Prague- and Belfast-based engineering teams, providing input on local talent and team fit.

• Mentor and manage a high-performing team — you’ll offer feedback and career guidance, set team and individual goals, pair frequently with junior engineers on technical tasks, and ensure team direction is in line with Rapid7 business priorities.

• Work with Metasploit engineers in North America, Belfast, and Prague on day-to-day product development, teaming with our open-source engineering group to drive consistency and operational stability across the whole product pipeline.

• Partner with our product manager and principal engineers to prioritize work, plan sprints, and ensure customer commitments are met, providing strong technical leadership and incorporating business context in decision making and execution.

• Guide teams in implementing and improving automated testing across a wide range of scenarios.

• Contribute and plan enhancements for Metasploit’s roadmap based on your understanding of customer needs and offensive security techniques.

• Drive an engineering culture of transparency, continuous learning, and operational excellence for the offensive security ecosystem at Rapid7.

The skills you’ll bring include:

• Experience as a technical team lead or manager in one or more engineering-related domains (e.g., software development, product security engineering, application security or development)

• 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!

• Familiarity with (or interest in) Metasploit and offensive security. Ideally, you have some understanding of security testing challenges and workflows, know one or two of the key offerings in the offensive security tool space, and know how red and blue teams leverage tools like Metasploit in different business settings.

• Strong record of mentoring, pairing with, and developing junior engineers in an agile environment, leading with empathy and emphasizing the user’s experience.

• Experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and/or JavaScript is a major bonus. Ruby doesn’t need to be your primary language, but it helps to be able to understand and extend the techniques that Metasploit embodies.

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

• Experience analyzing business, customer, and other data to make engineering and product decisions