Principal Software Engineer

Rapid7's Log Search team is responsible for delivering the underlying massive data storage and search foundations for all of Rapid7's products on the cloud-based Insight Platform. Our microservice architecture is designed to deliver a secure, reliable and resilient platform for both our customers to use and for our endpoint products to build on. We are focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and helping products secure and deliver experiences.

We are seeking an innovative, self motivated Principal Engineer responsible for the technical leadership of an industry leading solution to unify our customers' security data. This role involves designing, building, maintaining, and releasing features and performance improvements for the log search data aggregation fabric.

• Be passionate about the development of others, always be ready to learn, and motivated to teach.
• Hands on in the design, build, maintenance, and release of features and performance improvements.
• Design, build and manage systems ingesting and querying data volumes in many TB per day.
• Advocate for upcoming features across the organization and with customers.
• Work with balanced teams, interface with Product Managers and Support.
• Research, implement, verify new technologies and advocate them with business cases for better scalability and search efficiencies.
• Proactive interest in AI applications to optimize log search and security insights.

• Expert level experience with Java (10 years+).
• Deep understanding of Linux and networking, and their performance considerations.
• Extensive experience with SaaS platforms and public cloud platforms (AWS).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical rationale to leadership.
• Strong, creative problem solving ability with a track record of delivering complex solutions to external customers.
• Act as a first class stakeholder in the development process, advocating for features across the organization and directly with customers.
• Ability to challenge the status quo, bringing innovative thinking and a fresh perspective to complex problems.
• Attitude to thrive in a high growth, evolving environment.
• Active driver of change, eager to lead the team through technical shifts.Ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions.
• Embodied core values: fostering a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.