Director, Software Engineering

Rapid7 is a publicly traded Cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, MA with 17 offices around the world. We are excited to be expanding our Global footprint into India and we are looking for a Director of Engineering to build and scale our engineering teams in this new location. We are looking for a technology leader with a proven track record of growing and developing high-performing engineering teams, with a focus on operational excellence, resiliency, and quality. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business to drive engineering strategy and execution in alignment with this mission.

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 at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing 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. 

Leading a high-performance team hinges heavily on amazing people leadership. At Rapid7, this means fostering an unbeatable culture, developing people, and ensuring that each team member has the opportunity to drive impact, learn, and grow. 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.

About the Role

In this role, you will lead an engineering team responsible for supporting thousands of customers in their journey to close the security achievement gap. You will not only shape the product from an architectural standpoint to ensure that we are delivering our best for our customers, but will also foster an organizational culture of excellence, collaboration, and leadership growth. 

In this role, you will:

• Set the bar and drive accountability for operational excellence in engineering, driving resilience, performance, and quality initiatives across the organization

• Partner closely with Product Management, UX, and other stakeholders to establish strategy and roadmap commitments.

• Develop and maintain technical strategy and establish execution plans to achieve roadmap goals, driving high-fidelity commitments and standards for delivery.

• Grow and develop both technical and leadership skills locally and across the organization to create a thriving culture for both individual contributors and team success.

• Invest in recruiting and developing the current and future stars of the engineering organization as the company and team continues to scale

• Engage directly with customers to incorporate their feedback and remove points of friction from their product experience.

• Ensure scalable development, testing, and deployment processes to maintain and improve product reliability, scalability, and performance.

• Collaborate with support teams and cross-functional teams to ensure that customers have a seamless experience when they need help with our products.

The skills you’ll bring include:

• 10+ years of global development and agile engineering leadership experience at scale.

• Technical Expertise: Proven track record to build, deliver, and run complex enterprise-class SaaS at scale

• Organizational Leadership: Experience growing and developing a diverse, distributed, thriving team of leaders and engineers.

• Collaboration: Ability to engage closely with customers, and to influence cross-functional partners across 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 leading and managing engineering teams to build and ship high-quality products/platforms in a fast-paced, continuous deployment environment.  

• Strategic Orientation: Solid facility with following and synthesizing strategic trends in your industry, and dynamically setting courses as required to ensure that engineering enables the company to respond to those trends and the resulting customer needs. 

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting 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, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact.

Here, we’re building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 11,000+ global customers ahead of whatever’s next.

Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world’s biggest security challenges.

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