Engineering Manager Job in Qualys, Inc.

Description

This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a team building Qualys next generation microservices based technology platform processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leverage open source technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.

Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Engineering Manager to lead development work on Security Applications that are part of Qualys next-generation Patch Management product. Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security service. This is a great opportunity to build next generation micro-services based products of Qualys that process over 100 million transactions, and terabytes of data per day, leveraging open source as well as proprietary technologies.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of building enterprise-ready, scalable SaaS products, and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner, and a fantastic manager of people.

Responsibilities

• Passionate about building a world class team that excels at developing innovative Security SaaS products
• Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers
• Create high-performance APIs, libraries and micro-services that scale to meet/exceed the demands of processing over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day
• Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS service in partnership with the SRE and operations teams.
• Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before theyre faced
• Ensure collaboration, communication, and set proper expectations across teams
• Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the product developed by the team
• Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies
• Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future
• Participate in architecture reviews related to non-functional aspects of the product

Requirements

• 12+ years hands-on development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products and solutions for service-oriented deployments in public (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.) or private clouds.
• 3+ years of experience in managing a team of engineers and architects.
• Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
• Strong 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.
• Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using:

• RESTful APIs consumed by internal and external partners
• Messaging middleware using JMS, AMQP, Kafka, NATS, etc.
• In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.
• Persistence in RDBMS or NoSQL Systems
• Applied principles of site reliability engineering for monitoring and alerting of applications
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science
• Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)
• Experience with Elastic Search

Bonus Points If You Have

• Managing full Product Life cycle and releases
• Expertise in Security and/or ITIL based Config Management domain
• Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
• Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds