Senior Principal Software Engineer

Rapid7, Inc; Belfast; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm in Northern Ireland seeks a Sr Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural development across core products. The ideal candidate will drive innovation and ensure operational excellence while collaborating with teams to align on technical strategy. You will engage directly with customers to understand their needs and help define best practices, making a significant impact in the cybersecurity landscape.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing complex enterprise-class software at scale.
• Experience with high-scale use of large language and machine learning models.
• History of building high-scale, quality products in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural and technical development across Unified Exposure Management.
• Collaborate to develop and drive the technical strategy.
• Engage directly with customers to understand their needs.

Skills

Technical expertise in designing software

Experience with various programming languages

Strong collaboration skills

Results-oriented mindset

Tools

Java

Python

AWS

Go

Job description

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 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 for over 11,000 organizations. These teams use best‑in‑class technology, innovative research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop both new and existing products and 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

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 multi‑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.

The skills and qualities you’ll bring include:

• 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.

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.

About Rapid7

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.