Senior Director Engineering, Total Cloud

Qualys; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys in India is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead multiple teams building the next generation of scalable SaaS security services. You will prototype, design, develop and support microservices-based products that process huge data volumes and transactions daily.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and partner with SRE and operations to ensure high availability. Bring deep experience leading global teams, strong Java/C++, and cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in SaaS/engineer leadership, including global teams.
• Strong Java/C++ programming and OO design.
• Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs and cloud deployments.
• Proficient in JVM concepts, GC, profiling, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop next-gen Qualys products and scalable SaaS services.
• Build high-performance APIs and microservices handling massive data.
• Partner with SRE and operations to run zero-downtime services.
• Lead global engineering teams and influence architectural decisions.
• Drive best practices for design, testing, and release processes.
• Evaluate new technologies and ensure scalable architecture.

Skills

Java

C++

SaaS architecture

Microservices

REST APIs

Distributed systems

JVM

Leadership

Architecture reviews

Education

BS/MS in CS/Applied Math

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Oracle

Cassandra

Job description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Senior Director, Engineering

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Senior Director, Engineering to work on Qualys' next-generation products. Working with multiple teams of engineers and architects, you will be responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security services. This is a great opportunity to build Qualys' next generation micro-services based products that process over a 100 million transactions and terabytes of data per day, leveraging open source and proprietary technologies.

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

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).

Bonus Points If You Have

• 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.