As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the engineering strategy by proposing solutions to complex technical problems and serving as a force multiplier across the organization. You will operate cross-functionally to oversee major system integrations and define the department’s long-term roadmap. Acting as a strategic partner to senior leadership, you will provide the technical vision needed to navigate ambiguity and translate broad business goals into scalable architectural realities.
By serving as an expert and owner of multiple areas of the codebase, you will successfully deliver major components from conception to release. You will drive engineering excellence by championing Design Documents, ensuring deliberate planning that prevents systemic errors and saves months of rework. You will be a steward of our technical culture, providing mentorship to senior talent and negotiating tradeoffs between technical and product needs to ensure our ecosystem remains robust and high-performing as we scale.
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 11,000 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 including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few.
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
As a Staff Software Engineer, your impact is measured not just by the code you ship, but by your ability to foresee and prevent complex technical challenges before they arise. You will set the technological direction and elevate the performance of everyone around you.
In this role, you will operate with a cross-team perspective, looking beyond individual features to oversee entire systems, their integrations, and the department's long-term technical roadmap. You are a master at navigating ambiguity, taking high-level business goals and translating them into robust, scalable architectural solutions.
Specifically, your focus will be to:
Drive Strategic Architecture: Act as the "Technical Right Hand" to senior leadership of TI, providing the insights and technical strategy needed to make critical business decisions.
Solve High-Ambiguity Problems: Lead the discovery and execution of complex, unique technical challenges that lack a clear roadmap, ensuring they are resolved with long-term stability in mind.
Establish Engineering Excellence: Shape the engineering culture by setting gold standards for code quality, CI/CD processes, and testing frameworks. You will be responsible for authoring comprehensive Design Docs that streamline development and prevent costly architectural mistakes across the organization.
Mentor and Scale Talent: Act as a dedicated mentor to Senior Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical growth.
Bridge the Gap: Align technical execution with product vision, ensuring our engineering efforts are always moving the needle for our customers.
The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:
A minimum of 8 years experience in software development using Python/GO/Node.js or other equivalent programming languages
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 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
Excellent attention to detail
Approaches change with openness and curiosity, seeking to understand the “why” and helping team adapt quickly and effectively
Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns
Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success
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.