Distinguished Software Engineer, Detection & Response

at  Rapid7

DISTINGUISHED SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DETECTION & RESPONSE ENGINEERING

Rapid7’s Detection and Response engineering team is seeking a Distinguished 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 Distinguished Engineers play a key part in setting the pace and tone of collaboration, and development and growth across our technical leaders.
If you are looking for an opportunity to drive widespread impact, develop technology that makes a difference for customers in a mission-critical space, and empower engineering teams to thrive, this role could be the perfect fit for you.

THE SKILLS YOU’LL BRING:

• 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

ABOUT THE ROLE:

In this role, you will lead architectural and technical development primarily for our InsightIDR product and Managed Detection & Response service, supporting thousands of customers in their journey to close the security achievement gap. You will drive the product from an architectural standpoint to ensure that we are delivering our best for our customers.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Collaborate to develop the technical strategy for the next generation of our Detection & Response platform leading our company to new heights in market leadership.
• Drive broad use of large language models and machine learning to process security data and give our customers the best security insights in the most efficient way possible.
• Dig into our most critical engineering challenges, working with leaders and stakeholders across teams to develop the best solutions to serve our customers
• Partner closely with engineering leaders 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
• 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
• Reinforce the engineering team’s focus on scalable development, testing and deployment processes to maintain and improve product reliability, scalability and performance
• Bring an informed technical perspective to organizational roadmap planning and customer commitments