Senior Principal Software Engineer

Rapid7’s Exposure Management engineering team is seeking a Sr Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural development across our core products. We are looking for an engineer with a proven track record of driving innovation to exceed market demands, who will develop a deep understanding of our customers, their needs, and our business. This leader should drive innovation at scale while supporting and driving an acute focus on operational excellence, resiliency and quality. This role also requires collaboration with key partners across our teams to ensure strategic, technical and architectural alignment of all of the powerful capabilities we bring to our customers.

Leading a high-performance team also hinges heavily on amazing people leadership. At Rapid7, this means fostering unbeatable culture, developing people and ensuring that each team member has the opportunity to drive impact, learn and grow. While this role specifically is an individual contributor role, our Sr Principal Engineers play a key part in setting the pace and tone of collaboration, and development and growth across our technical leaders.

About the role

In this role, you will drive architectural and technical development across the various missions which fall under our Unified Exposure Management initiative. This includes Vulnerability Management, CNAPP, External Attack Surface Management, and Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management. You will drive the product development process from an architectural and technical leadership standpoint to ensure the delivery of best-in-class outcomes for our customers.Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Collaborate to develop and drive the technical strategy for our unified Exposure Management offerings.
• Help formulate our cyber security data aggregation and correlation strategy at scale (millions of assets, 100’s of millions of findings, etc.)
• Consult and help design secure, scalable, stable, and resilient mutli-tenant cloud applications and deployment patterns
• Consult and partner closely with engineers across Rapid7 to ensure an aligned overarching platform strategy in support of all of our products
• Engage directly with customers to understand their needs, incorporate their feedback, and remove points of friction from their product experience and use those experiences to reinforce a customer-first mentality throughout the organization
• Help define, socialize, and enforce our SDLC best practices including nurturing the practical utilization of AI as a productivity tool and to enhance product features.
• Set the bar for operational excellence in engineering, supporting resilience, performance, and quality initiatives across the organization
• Support the growth and skills development of technical team members across the organization to create a thriving culture for both individual contributors and team success
• Bring an informed technical perspective to organizational roadmap planning and customer commitments

• A minimum of 12 years experience in software development using Java or other equivalent programming languages
• Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
• Strong creative problem solving skills
• Solid communicator with the ability to clearly convey objectives and rationale whilst fostering commitment from others both within the team and cross functionally
• Brings a customer-first mindset to engineering, and integrates customer impact into everyday decision making
• Technical Expertise: Proven track record of designing complex enterprise-class software at scale; experience with wide variety of programming languages, environments, and platforms; experience with high scale use of large language and machine learning models
• Strategic Vision: Strong facility with following and synthesizing strategic trends in your industry, and dynamically setting course as required to ensure that the engineering team enables the company to respond to those trends and the resulting customer needs
• Collaboration: Ability to engage closely with customers and to influence cross-functional product management, support, strategy and other areas to ensure alignment on the priorities of the engineering team to promote customer success
• Results Oriented: Proven history of building high-scale, quality products/platforms in fast-paced, continuous deployment environment
• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success