Senior Director, Engineering

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

• 15+ 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.
• Significant experience with managing global engineer teams.
• 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/C++ programming skills.
• Object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing & profiling.
• 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).
  

• 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.