Director of Engineering, Security Applications
Foster City, CA

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Director, Security Applications to work on Qualys' next-generation products. Working with multiple teams of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security services. This is a great opportunity to build Qualys' next generation micro-services based products that process over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leveraging open source and proprietary technologies.

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

Responsibilities

* Develop best-in-class Qualys' next-generation products
* Passionate about building world class teams that excel at developing innovative Security SaaS products
* Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers.
* Create high-performance APIs, libraries and microservices 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 services 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 they're needed
* Ensure collaboration, communication, and proper expectation setting across teams
* Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the products 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 performance and scalability of products

Requirements

* 10+ 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.
* 6+ years experience with managing teams of 50+ engineers distributed globally.
* 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 API's 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, Applied Math or related field
* Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
* Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)



Bonus Points If You Have

* Built Security services from the ground up
* 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