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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.