About this role
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Job Description
The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building large, scalable SaaS products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and a fantastic manager of people.
Responsibilities
• Lead the development initiative for building best-in-class Qualys’ next-generation products • Passionate about building world class teams that excel at developing innovative Security SaaS products • Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers. • Create high-performance APIs, libraries and microservices that scale to meet/exceed the demands of processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day • Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS services in partnership with the SRE and operations teams. • Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before they’re needed • Ensure collaboration, communication, and proper expectation setting across teams • Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the products developed by the team • Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies • Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future • Participate in architecture reviews related to performance and scalability of products Requirements
• 10 years development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products • 5 years experience with managing teams of engineers. • Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc. • Strong Java programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc. • Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc. • Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using: • RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners • Messaging middleware using JMS AMQP, Kafka, NATS, etc. • In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc. • Persistence in RDBMS or NoSQL Systems • Applied principles of site reliability engineering for monitoring and alerting of applications • Strong analytical and debugging skills • Strong in data structures and algorithms • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math or related field • Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle) • Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra) Bonus Points If You Have • Built Security services from the ground up • Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc • Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus • Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant • Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible • In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines • Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds