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Principal Software Engineer

Ireland, Dublin · Job Posted June 14, 2026
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Rarely does an opportunity come to market that will allow a candidate to have such an influential role in the strategic direction of an organization like Rapid7. There will be many challenges such as designing a system to scale to traffic approaching 1 PB per day across the globe, while still allowing rapid and flexible search of this data with resilience and extensibility. This is a very high impact, high growth role and one of the most exciting engineering opportunities at Rapid7.

Job Responsibility

  • Be passionate about the development of others, always be ready to learn, and motivated to teach
  • Be hands-on in the design, build, maintenance, and release of features and performance improvements commensurate with the expectations of customers both external and internal for the log search data aggregation fabric
  • Design, build and manage systems ingesting and querying data volumes in many TB per day
  • Be an advocate for upcoming features, across the organisation, and with customers, we expect our engineers to be first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process
  • Work with balanced teams and interface with Product Managers and Support
  • Research, implement and verify new technologies and make make business cases for these to set new standards of scalability and search efficiencies
  • A proactive interest in AI applications and how they can be leveraged to optimize log search and security insights

Requirements

  • Expert level experience with Java (10 years+)
  • A deep understanding of Linux and networking, and their performance considerations
  • Extensive experience with SaaS platforms and public cloud platforms (AWS)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical rationale to leadership
  • Strong, creative problem-solving ability with a track record of delivering complex solutions to external customers
  • Act as a first-class stakeholder in the development process, advocating for features across the organization and directly with customers
  • You aren't afraid to challenge the status quo, bringing innovative thinking and a fresh perspective to complex problems
  • Attitude to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
  • You are an active driver of change
  • Ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
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