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About the Team Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organizations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world. The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe its our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies. Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space. About the Role : The Senior Platform Operations Engineer is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of ensuring reliability, scalability and availability across our products so that our customers are safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed ensuring our products are delivering a secure, available, reliable and scalable experience. You will be working on a high impact and cross-functional team, creating end-to-end security solutions that drive customer success.You will have the opportunity to further enhance your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced Engineers, whilst mentoring others. In this role, you will : - Suggest patterns and standards around testing and operations to improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions - Be involved in the creation, design and planning of upcoming testing strategies, operational improvements and decisions around tooling and frameworks relating to SRE/Operations - Regularly monitor our applications/infrastructure and identify opportunities for improving efficiencies or MTTR - Understand our products and make decisions to support our customers The skills youll bring include : - A minimum of 6 years experience in software development using Java, terraform and Jenkins. - Experience with Python, Go, ansible, spinnaker, or other equivalent programming languages would be advantageous - Experience with vulnerability or code quality frameworks such as Trivvy, Snyk or SonarQube - A minimum of 1 year of working with observability tooling such as grafana - Experience using Cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS - Experience with testing frameworks as Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Playwright would be advantageous - Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor more junior members of the team - Customer focussed mindset, understanding customer needs, providing excellent service and focussed on delivering value - The attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment - Collaborative team player who has the ability to partner with others and drive toward solutions - Strong creative problem solving skills - Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally and strong attention to detail - Demonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers - Demonstrable experience of instigating continuous delivery and continuous integration patterns About Rapid7 At Rapid7, we are on a mission to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by embracing tenacity, passion, and collaboration to challenge whats possible and drive extraordinary impact. Here, were building a dynamic workplace where everyone can have the career experience of a lifetime. We challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential. We learn from our missteps and celebrate our victories. We come to work every day to push boundaries in cybersecurity and keep our 10,000 global customers ahead of whatevers next. Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the worlds biggest security challenges. .
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.