The Manager of Software Engineering will lead the Vulnerability Coverage team, managing projects, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality software delivery in cybersecurity.
- The Manger, Software Engineering will lead the Vulnerability Coverage team who are responsible for delivering vulnerability content to customers, ensuring accuracy and reliability. They will work closely with our product management team to align on roadmaps, prioritize new coverage, and drive long-term improvements with automation pipelines. Additionally, they will drive operational excellence, collaborate with security researchers and manage delivery of coverage for emerging threats.
About the Team
The Vulnerability Coverage team is responsible for delivering, expanding and maintaining Rapid7's extensive coverage portfolio, aiming to provide customers with the expected level of accuracy and quality. Vulnerability Coverage team members develop a broad set of skills, ranging from technologies such as Python, Java, Ruby, AWS and Kubernetes to security domain expertise and system-level knowledge. The Vulnerability Coverage team is often considered the lifeblood of many Rapid7 products, including InsightVM and InsightCloudSec. In addition to delivering daily content packages to ensure that customers always have the most up-to-date coverage, the team is also responsible for providing monthly Patch Tuesday coverage and responding to emerging vulnerability threats by releasing coverage as quickly as possible. As a result, the team maintains extremely high standards for quality and accuracy of the content they deliver.
About the Role
The Manger, Software Engineering will lead the Vulnerability Coverage team who are responsible for delivering vulnerability content to customers, ensuring accuracy and reliability. They will work closely with our product management team to align on roadmaps, prioritize new coverage, and drive long-term improvements with automation pipelines. Additionally, they will drive operational excellence, collaborate with security researchers and manage delivery of coverage for emerging threats.
In this role, you will: - Directly manage a team of Software Engineers, coaching and mentoring team members, including scoping work and prioritising tasks
- Mentor engineers and help grow their skills, identify growth areas, set expectations and provide feedback
- Manage projects and socialising progress across engineering teams and leadership
- Organize cross functional deliverables by creating project plans, access and document risks, communicate status, create staffing plans.
- Keep a keen eye on quality, and continue to drive improvements to testing, monitoring and alerting
- Work cross functionally with PM, UX and Engineering to address specific customer pain points and to think strategically about the future direction of the product
- Work closely with other managers and teams across the product to align efforts and initiatives
- The skills you'll bring include:
- 2-3 years experience in managing software engineering teams with a track record in developing and mentoring software engineers at all levels
- A demonstrable passion for all things software engineering with the ability to read design documents, a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to read code
- BEng, BSc or related technical field
- Strong project management and program management skills with experience in managing multiple, high-impact projects
- A customer centric approach with the ability to drive that throughout your teams, understanding the customers needs and drivers and putting the customer at the forefront of all decision making
- A solid pulse on the security landscape would be an added benefit
- We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact.
Here, we're building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10,000 global customers ahead of whatever's next.
Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world's biggest security challenges. - Experience in communicating with variety of audience e.g. Executives, customers
- Strong cross-functional skills, with the ability and desire to build relationships with other teams including Product Management, UX and engineering teams to achieve broader company objectives
- Capable of managing through high-intensity situations when they arise
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