Lead Software Engineer

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Rapid7

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Information Security • Vulnerability Management • Penetration Testing • Compromised User Detection • Mobile Risk Management

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

🔒 Cybersecurity

Description

• Rapid7’s Metasploit team is building the future of the world’s best-known software exploitation framework. • Help us maintain and improve Metasploit Pro in support of our global user community. • Mentor and grow more junior developers in addition to writing (or removing!) code yourself. • Work asynchronously with researchers, engineers, and community members worldwide. • Develop new features and enhancements, build integrations, and deliver intuitive capabilities that delight and inspire Metasploit users. • Assess, improve, and document community-contributed code to extend Metasploit functionality in a usable, maintainable way. • Partner with our product manager and principal engineer to prioritize work, plan sprints, and ensure commitments are met. • Suggest features and enhancements for Metasploit’s long-term roadmap based on your understanding of user and developer needs. • Implement and improve automated testing across a wide range of scenarios.

Requirements

• Ability to learn and evaluate new technologies quickly, digging into code to find answers. • Interest in or experience with offensive security technologies and use cases. • Readiness to mentor and develop junior engineers, leading with empathy and strong user focus. • Ruby and Ruby on Rails. • Conversant in Git-based project development. • Understanding of APIs, modern languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, Go), interprocess communication, and modern networking and deployment tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Vagrant, Docker)