Senior Software Engineer - Metasploit Prague, Praha

Senior Software Engineer - Metasploit

Rapid7’s Metasploit team is building the future of the world’s best-known software exploitation framework, working with the open-source community to help organizations around the world test their defenses and expose cybersecurity risk. We’re looking for a lead engineer to help us maintain and improve Metasploit Framework and Metasploit Pro in collaboration with our global user community.
**About the Team**
Metasploit is the world’s most popular open-source hacker toolkit. At Rapid7, a distributed team of security researchers and software engineers works with the open-source community to incorporate fresh features, enhancements, and fixes into Metasploit. The Metasploit commercial engineering team also ensures the stability and optimization of our product pipeline, from automated testing and dependency management all the way through new customer-facing enhancements.
Metasploit and its related projects are built with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but Metasploit also incorporates many other languages.
**About the Role**
As a Metasploit engineer, you’ll help the team work toward sprint goals on a day-to-day basis and bring strong engineering principles to bear on projects from architecture through implementation. This role will support Metasploit Pro development, helping our customers conduct effective security testing so they can validate and prioritize risk.
**In this role, you will**:
- Develop, build, and release enhancements, fixes, and features for our open-source and commercial Metasploit product lines
- Participate in design and implementation of features and enhancements at regular sprint plannings, stand-ups, and code reviews
- Write clean and correct code, taking ownership of smaller feature projects as needed
- Learn about offensive security customer problems and use cases
- When required, partner with external teams like PM or technical support to ensure we are serving our customers’ needs
**The skills you’ll bring include**:
- At least 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience with Ruby and Ruby on Rails, or another web framework such as Django, Flask, or SpringBoot. Some basic experience with front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, JavaScript).
- Familiarity with Git-based project development and conventions (e.g., reviewing, merging, rebasing)
- Understanding of APIs, interprocess communication, and modern networking and deployment tooling (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, Docker)
- Interest in offensive security technologies and hacker culture
- Ability to work asynchronously with a global group of engineers, researchers, product managers, and community members
**About Rapid7**
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) helps organizations across the globe protect what matters most so innovation can thrive in an increasingly connected world. Our comprehensive technology, services, and community-focused research simplify the complex for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, be in 10 places at once, and shut down attacks. We’re on a mission to make security solutions easier to use and access so we can bring safety and resilience to more people.
With more than 10,000 customers across 140+ countries, Rapid7 is a leader in cybersecurity that has earned numerous industry accolades and recognition for our technology and culture.

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