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Software Engineer II - Python


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  • Rapid7
  • Belfast
  • 2 months ago

As a Software Engineer II you’ll get the opportunity to be a hands-on engineer, learning best practice engineering processes and approaches whilst receiving ongoing development through coaching, mentoring and pairing with other engineers on your team. From problem-solving to challenging old ways of thinking, you will have the opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity whilst working with cutting edge technologies in a dynamic and collaborative team.

About the Team

The Platform Analytics team (part of our broader Data & Analytics Platform) plays a critical role in helping Rapid7 keep their customers safe from attacks and breaches across the globe. The team is responsible for transporting high volume telemetry data (including user event data, logging metrics & more) into our Data Platform to:

Enable product & engineering teams to monitor health of their systems and develop & test features prior to release

Unlock actionable metrics for moose across the organization from analytics teams all the way up to our executive leadership team.

We have a cutting edge data stack including Kafka, K8s, AWS, TimescaleDB, Spark & more. 

About the Role
In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. While we expect you can come in and hit the ground running, you will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced senior engineers. 

In this role, you will:

Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs.

Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process 

When required, partner with internal teams such as Product Analytics, UX and Product Management who rely heavily on our product data

Ability to work cross functionally to help deliver a shared Data Platform

The skills you’ll bring include:

2-4 years experience in software development using Python or other equivalent programming languages

Experience with common data engineering tooling such as Kafka, RDBMS tools, SQS, Lambda, etc (Spark is a plus) 

Familiarity with infrastructure as code, working knowledge of terraform is required

Cloud experience is required, AWS is a plus

Experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc) is required

Experience with time series databases tools (Timescale, Influx, Timestream, etc) is a plus

Foundational understanding of subnets, firewalls (security groups, ACL’s, etc) and other system architecture concepts 

Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn

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 excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally

Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making

Excellent attention to detail


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, apply today.

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