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Staff Software Engineer

🔥 1 minute ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

đź’µ $164.6k - $222.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

đź”´ Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Rapid7

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

đź”’ Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

Rapid7 is a cybersecurity company that provides a range of solutions designed to secure cloud, identity, and endpoint products. The company's Command Platform utilizes artificial intelligence to offer deep insights into cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. Rapid7's offerings include Managed XDR for continuous monitoring, detection, and incident response, as well as tools for attack surface management, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence. The company is known for its open-source projects like Metasploit and Velociraptor, which aid in vulnerability research and enhancing cybersecurity frameworks. Rapid7 also emphasizes community and culture, contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and engages in public policy advocacy to strengthen cybersecurity on a broader scale. They serve over 11,000 global companies and deliver expert analysis on attack trends and emergent threats through Rapid7 Labs.

đź“‹ Description

• Architect, design, maintain, and monitor highly available, scalable services and internal tools using an AI-first software development lifecycle • Partner with stakeholders and program management teams to capture operational pain points, translate requirements into technical architecture, and scope delivery milestones • Collaborate with product and platform engineering teams to integrate shared platform services and improve service delivery efficiency • Drive technical excellence and engineering standards across microservices, cloud infrastructure, and deployment pipelines • Establish automated testing, monitoring, and observability strategies to ensure uptime, system health, and rapid incident resolution • Mentor and guide engineering peers on software architecture, design reviews, code quality, and sustainable operational practices • Build resilient services and automation tools that accelerate MDR and IR service delivery • Support Rapid7's global Managed Detection and Response, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response delivery teams

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience architecting, building, and maintaining distributed microservices and backend systems in Python, including Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, or Flask • Hands-on proficiency with JavaScript (ES6+) and React • Extensive expertise designing and provisioning scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, including ECS, API Gateway, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and IAM • Experience using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform • Strong track record establishing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins • Experience with Docker and EKS container orchestration • Experience with programmatic testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and linting • Experience with live observability, log monitoring, and telemetry tooling such as DataDog • Practical experience or strong drive to leverage AI-first software engineering methodologies • Experience with LLM integrations, including Claude and Amazon Bedrock • Ability to drive end-to-end technical outcomes and establish clear technical ownership • Ability to build collaborative cross-functional relationships • Ability to make transparent, timely technical decisions • Ability to break complex architectural initiatives into iterative, time-bound milestones • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts, system designs, and architectural rationale clearly • Ability to embody Rapid7's core values

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable/incentive compensation may be available • Equity may be available • Benefits may be available/eligible • Remote work arrangement

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