Job Description

The Platform Analytics team is looking for a data-focused professional to help build and scale the systems that power Rapid7's internal analytics. This role focuses on transporting and enabling access to high-volume telemetry data, supporting teams across the company in making informed, data-driven decisions. You'll work closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to ensure data is reliable, accessible, and actionable.

About the Team

The Platform Analytics team (part of our broader Internal Data & Analytics team) plays a critical role in helping Rapid7 keep their customers safe from attacks and breaches across the globe. The team is responsible for transporting high volume telemetry data (including user event data, logging metrics & more) into our Data Platform to:

Enable product & engineering teams to monitor health of their systems and develop & test features prior to release Unlock actionable metrics for moose across the organization from analytics teams all the way up to our executive leadership team.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer I, your primary responsibility will be to support our internal moose by seamlessly serving product usage data and maintaining self-hosted data solutions. While we expect you can come in and hit the ground running, you will have the opportunity to further broaden your skills surrounded by a team of incredibly smart and experienced senior engineers.


. Specifically, your focus will be to:

Build, maintain, and release our well architected services by writing correct and clean code consistently and following best practices and conventions. You will understand and make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs. Take an active role in the design and planning of upcoming features, our engineers are first class stakeholders in all parts of the development process When required, partner with internal teams such as Product Analytics, UX and Product Management who rely heavily on our product data Ability to work cross functionally to help deliver a shared Data Platform

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

1-3 years experience in software development using Python Experience working with container technologies is required (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc) is required; Kubernetes is preferred Working knowledge of Terraform (IaC) is required Experience with common data engineering tooling such as Kafka, RDBMS tools, SQS, Lambda, etc (Spark is a plus) required Cloud experience is required, AWS is a plus Experience with time series databases tools (Timescale, Influx, Timestream, etc) is a plus Foundational understanding of subnets, firewalls (security groups, ACL's, etc) and other system architecture concepts Excited by technology, curious and eager to learn 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 Sound problem solving and ability to make efficient decisions that resolve challenges and enable momentum, integrating diverse perspectives and ensuring transparency in the process. Solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communications skills both within the team and cross functionally Passionate about delighting customers, puts the customer needs at the forefront of all decision making Excellent attention to detail

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.



About Rapid7


At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.


Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope - just like we've been doing for the past 20 years. If you're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.

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