Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II - Platform

Rapid7 is a publicly traded Cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, MA with 17 offices around the world. We are excited to be expanding our Global footprint into India and as we build out our Product & Engineering teams, we are looking for Platform Operation Engineers. As a Platform Operations Engineer II you will take ownership of the development of new features for your team, working with cutting edge technologies and owning this process end to end. You will bring a customer centric approach with a curiosity and passion for continuous learning. You will be provided with coaching and support to help you further develop your skills to reach your full potential. This is an exciting opportunity to be one of the first hires for Rapid7 in India supporting our growth strategy in a company culture that supports trying new approaches and continuous learning. 

About the Team

Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world. 

The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it’s our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies.

Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.

About the Role
The Platform Operations Engineer II is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of ensuring reliability, scalability and availability across our products so that our customers are safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed ensuring our products are delivering a secure, available, reliable and scalable experience.  You will be working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success.You will have the opportunity to further enhance your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst mentoring others.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain internal automation that improves the efficiency, reliability and security of microservice operations and deployments

  
  

• Help teams deliver comprehensive test plans to identify software defects across functional, performance, usability, and regression testing areas

  
  

• Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming testing strategies, operational improvements and decisions around tooling and frameworks relating to SRE/Operations 

  
  

• Regularly monitor our applications/infrastructure and identify opportunities for improving efficiencies or MTTR 

  
  

The skills you’ll bring include:

• A minimum of 3 years experience in software development using java, python, go or other equivalent programming languages/frameworks or testing leveraging tooling such as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright 

  
  

• A minimum of 1 year of working with observability tooling such as grafana

  
  

• Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as Trivvy, Snyk or SonarQube

  
  

• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn

  
  

• 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 and strong attention to detail

  
  

• Passionate about putting the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making

  
  

• Excellent attention to detail 

  
  

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.
 

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope just like we’ ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you ’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.