Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Rapid7

Location:
India , Pune

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

As a Senior Platform Operations Engineer you will work with your team to effectively ensure system reliability through automation and analysis to prevent issues before they occur. You are an innovative, self-motivated contributor who takes on research and proposes major new technologies within a product line. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to problems, and you will partner with cross-functional teams owning requirements that take into account all parties’ needs. You will act as a resource by advising and mentoring junior engineers to continue to build the technical capabilities of our teams. This is an exciting opportunity to be one of the first hires for Rapid7 in India supporting our growth strategy in a company culture that supports trying new approaches and continuous learning.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborate with your team and other key stakeholders to identify potential risks to availability/reliability
Suggest patterns and standards around testing and operations to improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming testing strategies, operational improvements and decisions around tooling and frameworks relating to SRE/Operations
Regularly monitor our applications/infrastructure and identify opportunities for improving efficiencies or MTTR
Understand our products and make decisions to support our customers

Requirements:

A minimum of 6 years experience in software development using Java, terraform and Jenkins
Experience with Python, Go, ansible, spinnaker, or other equivalent programming languages would be advantageous
Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as Trivvy, Snyk or SonarQube
A minimum of 1 year of working with observability tooling such as grafana
Experience using Cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
Experience with testing frameworks as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright would be advantageous
Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team
Customer focussed mindset, understanding customer needs, providing excellent service and focussed on delivering value
The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment
Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions
Strong creative problem solving skills
Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally and strong attention to detail
Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers
Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns

Nice to have:

Experience with Python, Go, ansible, spinnaker, or other equivalent programming languages would be advantageous
Experience with testing frameworks as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright would be advantageous

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 11, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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