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The Principal Software Engineer's role is responsible for providing technical leadership and does not have people-management responsibilities.\r\nAbout the Team\r\nThe Vulnerability Coverage team is responsible for delivering, expanding and maintaining Rapid7's extensive vulnerability detection portfolio, aiming to provide customers with the expected level of accuracy and quality. Vulnerability Coverage team members develop a broad set of skills, ranging from technologies such as Python, Java, Ruby, AWS and Kubernetes to security domain expertise and system-level knowledge. The Vulnerability Coverage team is often considered the lifeblood of many Rapid7 products, including InsightVM and InsightCloudSec. In addition to delivering daily coverage packages to ensure that customers always have the most up-to-date coverage, the team is also responsible for providing monthly Patch Tuesday coverage and responding to emerging vulnerability threats by releasing coverage as quickly as possible. As a result, the team maintains extremely high standards for quality and accuracy of the coverage they deliver.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nThe Principal Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Coverage team will help set technical direction for delivering accurate vulnerability coverage to our customers in a timely manner. They will serve as an expert and owner for a portion of the overall coverage portfolio, participate in architectural discussions and successfully deliver new capabilities and coverage from conception to release. In addition to hands-on development, they will work closely with the product management team, mentor engineers and contribute to roadmap planning. The Principal Software Engineer's role is responsible for providing technical leadership and does not have people-management responsibilities.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nBuild, maintain, and release high-quality vulnerability coverage by becoming an expert in specific areas of our security coverage portfolio.\r\nBuild, maintain and release new services and plugins for generating new vulnerability coverage.\r\nBe involved in driving the design and planning of upcoming features, ensuring our engineers are first-class stakeholders in all parts of the development process.\r\nPartner with internal teams such as Product Management to ensure our customer needs are met.\r\nBuild a deep understanding of the processes involved in maintaining and improving our vulnerability coverage portfolio.\r\nQualifications\r\nMinimum of 10 years experience in software development using Python.\r\nExperience working with Java, Spring and databases is a plus.\r\nExperience with cloud-based deployments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).\r\nExperience with IaC such as Terraform or Ansible.\r\nExperience with virtualization and containers.\r\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins and proficiency with version control systems such as GitHub.\r\nBEng, BSc or related technical field.\r\nAbility to plan, organize and drive a complex project across multiple organizations.\r\nExcited by technology, curious and eager to learn, with the ability to mentor junior team members.\r\nThe attitude and ability to thrive in a high-growth, evolving environment.\r\nCollaborative team player who can partner with others and drive toward solutions.\r\nStrong creative problem-solving skills.\r\nSolid communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills both within the team and cross-functionally.\r\nDemonstrable experience of delivering complex solutions to customers.\r\nExperience with cloud services and infrastructure such as AWS would be advantageous.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Divvycloud","rawCompany":"divvycloud","city":"New York","state":"NY","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-05-23T06:48:26.995Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Principal Software Engineer - Python","description":"The Principal Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Coverage team will help set technical direction for delivering accurate vulnerability detections to our customers in a timely manner. 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