Senior Software Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to work on Qualys’ next-generation Platform & Middleware. Working with a team of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting a highly scalable SaaS based cloud security platform. 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.  Responsibilities Co-develop Qualys’ best-in-class next-generation platform and middleware products  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  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 Requirements 6  years as a hands-on engineer developing SaaS based software products and solutions for service-oriented deployments in public (AWS, Azure, Rackspace, etc.) or private clouds.  Have built scalable SaaS platforms utilizing microservices/distributed systems architecture using:  RESTful API's consumed by internal and external partners  Messaging middleware using JMS, Kafka etc.  In-memory caching using Redis, Memcached, etc.  Strong Java programming skills including object oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.  Understand data structures and algorithms  Expertise with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)  Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)  Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and related CI/CD tools  Bachelors/Masters/Doctorate in Computer Science or equivalent