Senior Director, Software Engineering

Job Description

Senior Director, Software Engineering

Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated, frequent, and damaging—challenging organizations to stay ahead of attackers in an increasingly complex digital landscape. Detection and Response is one of the fastest-evolving and most critical areas within cybersecurity, where real-time threat detection, rapid investigation, and automated response are essential to reducing risk and minimizing impact.

Security teams are demanding AI-driven insights, automation, and extended detection and response capabilities to improve their security posture and streamline operations. The industry is shifting toward cloud-native architectures, behavioral analytics, and machine learning to detect threats faster and more accurately. Rapid7 is at the forefront of this transformation, building solutions that help defenders detect attacks early, respond swiftly, and stay resilient against emerging threats.

About the Role

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead and scale the engineering team behind one of the industry’s top cloud-based Detection and Response platforms, shaping the future of security operations. If you are passionate about building high-scale, cloud-native security solutions, empowering defenders with cutting-edge technology, and leading high-performing engineering teams, this is the opportunity for you.

In this role, you will:

• Track record of retaining, developing, motivating and mentoring highly effective teams

• Ability to embed and lead world-class software development processes and practices

• Proven ability to drive product resiliency, delivery execution, and operational excellence

• Develop and maintain technical strategy and establish execution plans to achieve roadmap goals, driving high-fidelity commitments and standards for delivery

• Set the bar for operational excellence in engineering, driving resilience, performance, and quality initiatives across the organization

• Partner closely with Product Management, UX, and other stakeholders to establish strategy and roadmap commitments

• Grow and develop both technical and leadership skills across the organization to create a thriving culture for both individual contributors and team success

• Steer and grow the engineering team, ensuring a thriving, collaborative cross-site dynamic as the business and product complexity grow rapidly

• Invest in developing the current and future stars of the engineering organization as the company and engineering organization continue to scale

• Engage directly with customers to incorporate their feedback and remove points of friction from their product experience

• Ensure scalable development, testing and deployment processes to maintain and improve product reliability, scalability and performance

• Collaborate with support teams and cross-functional teams to ensure that customers have a seamless experience when they need help with our products

The skills you’ll bring include:

• Technical Expertise: Fluent in cloud technologies with a proven record of building scalable enterprise software, as well as experience leading teams through efficiently solving complex engineering challenges

• Organizational Leadership: Experience growing and developing a diverse, distributed, thriving team of leaders, developers and engineers

• Collaboration: Ability to engage closely with customers, and to influence cross-functional product management, support, strategy and other areas to ensure alignment on the priorities of the engineering team to promote customer success

• Results Oriented: Proven history of leading and managing engineering teams to build and ship high quality products/platforms in fast-paced, continuous deployment environment

• Strategic Orientation: Strong facility with following and synthesizing strategic trends in our industry, and dynamically setting course as required to ensure that engineering enables the company to respond to those trends and the resulting customer needs

• 10+ years of development/engineering leadership experience at scale

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, 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 what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact.

Here, we’re 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 11,000+ global customers ahead of whatever’s next.

Join us and bring your unique experiences and perspectives to tackle some of the world’s biggest security challenges.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.