Software Engineer

Job description

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

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to help build next generation security products working with a team of talented and motivated engineers. You will be working in a fast-paced environment innovating, prototyping, designing, developing and supporting highly scalable SaaS based Security products on the next generation Qualys Cyber Security Cloud Platform, leveraging open-source technologies to solve challenging problems for enterprise security business needs.

Required skills:

The ideal candidate will have a breadth of skills across software development, reverse engineering, scripting, tool development, familiarity with virtual infrastructure, and has a tinge for creating and testing new methods of operating in a large and dynamic work environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3 to 7 years hands-on experience with developing software products for SaaS solutions in deployments in public (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, etc.) or private clouds. 
• Good understanding of Object-oriented concepts
• Prior experience with RDBMS systems and some or all of Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Ceph
• Strong analytical and debugging skills. 
• 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. 
• Strong in data structures and some algorithms. 
• Some experience with open-source projects like OpenSSL, curl, libmxl2 etc.
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Hands-on experience using CI/CD pipelines 
• Comfortable with build processes as well as working with tools like Git, Jira and Jenkins.
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong analytical & problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work independently and self-learn
• Must be a critical thinker with excellent verbal and written skills
• Ability to clearly articulate and communicate technical concepts within and across teams. 
• Decent understanding of IP network and principles
   

Desirable:

• Practical experience with RedHat/CentOS/OEL-like OS environments and RPM package management
• Linux shell scripting (Bash, grep, sed, awk)
• Awareness of Python, C/C++ programming skills, Unix sockets, memory management etc.
• Linux software development frameworks - GNU C compilers, make, gdb, configure, git, etc.
• Awareness of OT domain is a big plus