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Job Description
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
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Lead the development initiative for building best-in-class Qualys’ next-generation products
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Passionate about building world class teams that excel at developing innovative Security SaaS products
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Customer focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers.
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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
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Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS services in partnership with the SRE and operations teams.
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Ensure that you maximize the productivity of your team, especially by predicting and resolving obstacles and dependencies before they’re needed
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Ensure collaboration, communication, and proper expectation setting across teams
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Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the products developed by the team
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Research, evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies
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Produce high-quality software following good architecture and design principles that you and your team will find easy to work with in the future
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Participate in architecture reviews related to performance and scalability of products
Requirements
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10 years development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products
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5 years experience with managing teams of engineers.
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Ability to lead and influence team members to forge consensus on technical discussions including architectural and design guidelines, code reviews, release process, etc.
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Strong Java programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.
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Knowledge of JVM concepts like garbage collection, heap, stack, profiling, class loading, etc.
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Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using:
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RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners
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Messaging middleware using JMS AMQP, Kafka, NATS, etc.
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In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.
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Persistence in RDBMS or NoSQL Systems
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Applied principles of site reliability engineering for monitoring and alerting of applications
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Strong analytical and debugging skills
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Strong in data structures and algorithms
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BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Applied Math or related field
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Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)
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Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra) Bonus Points If You Have
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Built Security services from the ground up
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Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc
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Experience with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus
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Experience with Hashicorp technologies such as Consul, Vault, Terraform and Vagrant
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Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
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In-depth experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
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Exposure to Maven, Ant or Gradle for builds
