Senior Software Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Description:
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to work on Qualys’ next-generation Platform & Middleware. Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting a highly scalable SaaS based cloud security platform. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys’ next generation microservices based technology platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects

Responsibilities:

* Co-develop Qualys’ best-in-class next-generation platform and middleware products

* 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

* 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

Requirements:

* 4+ years as a hands-on engineer developing SaaS based software products and solutions for service oriented deployments in public (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.) or private clouds.

* 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.

* 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.

* Understand data structures and algorithms

* Expertise with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
* Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)
Developed search based applications using Elasticsearch or Solr
* Experience of deploying microservices CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes.
* Proven understanding of software development best practices and design patterns.
* Writing high-performance, reliable, and maintainable code.
* Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate in Computer Science or equivalent

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package

- Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement

- Dynamic and collaborative work environment