Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
We are looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team in developing Qualys’ next-generation Platform & Middleware. In this role, you will work alongside a team of experienced engineers and architects to prototype, design, build, and support a highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security platform.
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the core of our microservices-based technology stack that handles over 100 million transactions and terabytes of data daily. You'll leverage cutting-edge open-source technologies while working on complex, high-impact projects that shape the future of cloud security.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in the design and development of Qualys’ next-generation platform and middleware products.
- Build high-performance APIs, libraries, and microservices to support massive scale and data throughput.
- Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to ensure platform evolution.
- Write clean, maintainable, and high-quality code that adheres to solid architecture and design principles.
- Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on experience developing SaaS-based software solutions for service-oriented architectures in public (AWS, Azure, etc.) or private cloud environments.
- Proven experience with building scalable SaaS platforms using microservices
- Expertise in:
- RESTful APIs for internal and external integrations
- Messaging middleware (e.g., Kafka)
- In-memory caching (e.g., Redis)
- Strong proficiency in Java, with solid understanding of object-oriented design, development, testing, and profiling.
- Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with RDBMS (preferably Oracle) and NoSQL databases (preferably Cassandra).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field.
Top Skills
What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
