Manager, Engineering

Description :

This is a great opportunity to build next-generation micro-services-based products of Qualys that process over 100 million transactions, and terabytes of data per day, leveraging open source as well as proprietary technologies, and work on challenging and business-impacting projects.

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

Responsibilities :

Passionate about building a world-class team that excels at developing innovative Security SaaS products

Customer-focused and highly driven to solve real problems for customers

Create high-performance APIs, libraries, and micro-services that scale to meet / exceed the demands of processing over 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day

Ensure highly available services with zero downtime. Be responsible for developing and running the SaaS service 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 are surfaced

Ensure collaboration, and communication, and set proper expectations across teams

Put in place and enforce best-in-class processes for ensuring high quality and high uptime for the product 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 non-functional aspects of the product

Requirements :

14+ 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.

3+ years of experience in managing a team of engineers and architects.

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 APIs 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

Experience with RDBMS systems (preferably Oracle)

Experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra)

Experience with Elastic Search

Bonus Points If You Have

Managing full Product Life cycle and releases

Expertise in Security and / or ITIL based Config Management domain

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