Description

At Rapid7, we’re building a security analytics platform to help customers easily find, manage and reduce risk. We seek a highly motivated technical leader to help ensure our platform is secure, reliable and available for thousands of customers that rely on it every day. 

You are a problem solver, passionate about eliminating toil through development and automation. Processing billions of daily events in the cloud excites you. You are ready to partner with teams across a global organization to build a modern scalable infrastructure. You are a developer at heart, but possess a wide range of skills across networking, Linux sysadmin, configuration management, clustered datastores, cloud services and deployment technologies.

The Platform Delivery team is a high-profile group that supports all Rapid7 products through dev tooling and cloud operations. We work directly with developers to ensure high uptime of our SaaS products. We strive to maintain a DevOps culture, empowering development while promoting security and reliability. We’re a global team with a local focus: our Los Angeles team (the LAPD!) works alongside our Threat Exposure Management team to bring the next generation of security solutions to our customers. 

Responsibilities 

Engage with other engineering teams to improve the lifecycle of services on our platform - from design to deployment to operation and maintenance 

Optimize our SaaS platform for performance and cost effectiveness 

Monitor and scale distributed services in AWS and clustered datastores such as Cassandra 

Participate in sustainable on-call incident response followed by blameless postmortems 

Automate infrastructure through Terraform or CloudFormation, Chef, and Docker/Kubernetes 

Requirements 

Experience scaling SaaS services and infrastructure 

Goal-driven, positive attitude with strong communication skills 

Proficient in AWS services, including EC2, RDS, EMR, VPC networking, S3, etc. 

Comfortable with one or more of: Python, Ruby, Javascript, Java, Bash 

Working knowledge with one or more of: Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Ansible, Puppet 

Passionate about developer experiences