Principal Software Engineer Prague, Praha

Principal Software Engineer

**Title**:Senior Software Engineer - Platform**
**Position Description**:
**As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own a full life cycle of development and be a senior contributor on a team responsible for the end-to-end delivery of increasingly complex features that are correctly implemented and high quality. You will take initiative to identify and own solutions to optimize our platform, 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. You will work to optimize the core architecture of Rapid7’s SaaS platform for cost efficiency, performance and scalability. In addition, you will bridge the gap between finance and engineering teams helping both to understand cloud spending trends, develop better forecasting models and inform pricing and packaging decisions. Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering teams in other business units to understand their cloud architecture and contribute performance and cost-effective improvements to their codebase is essential in this role in addition to developing services and automation to help optimize our usage of AWS services.**
**About the Team**
**The Platform Delivery team supports all Rapid7 products through DevOps tooling and infrastructure operations. We strive to maintain a DevOps culture, empowering development while promoting security and reliability.**
**Youll work directly with, but not limited to, the following technologies: AWS (Compute, RDS, VPC networking, S3, Athena, Network Firewall etc.), Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible, Artifactory, GitHub, Slack)**
**About the Role**
**We are looking for someone that has the vision to identify opportunities to improve our devops tooling and infrastructure operations for our product engineers and can drive a team to execute these opportunities efficiently. You thrive on building strong cross-functional relationships and diving deep into the technical engineering details. You have a thirst to learn and to be never done!**
**Required Experience/Skills**:
**The Senior Software Engineer is a part of our Platform and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. You will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst getting the opportunity to mentor others.**
**Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a directly related field plus five (5) years of experience as a Software Developer, Network and Computer Systems Administrator or related occupation. Experience must include**:
**Five (5) years of experience in the following (experience may be gained concurrently)**:
- ** Git and Linux**
- ** Agile and Scrum based teams**
- ** High proficiency with one of Java, Spring**
- ** A good understanding of container orchestration platforms including K8s.**
- ** Relevant experience with SaaS platforms and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP and Azure)**
- **Minimum of two (2) years experience**:
- ** Cloud cost optimization techniques and FinOps Best practices**
- ** Public cloud providers and public cloud pricing and billing model

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