Senior Manager, Software Engineering

In this role you will lead teams of software engineers responsible for our Command Platform, focusing on Exposure Command capabilities and experiences. We ship new content and product updates regularly to our customers to ensure they're protected from new exposure risk as they arise. You will work closely with an outstanding peer group of highly skilled engineers in order to prioritise and set direction of the teams.
About the Team
Our Product and Engineering team works with our award-winning products to help us create a single experience to help customers assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs at over 10,000 organisations. These teams use best-in-class technology, leading-edge research, and broad, strategic expertise to develop new products and features, and enhance existing features, in order to create value for customers across the world.
The stakes for creating a safer digital world are greater than ever. At Rapid7 we believe it's our responsibility to show up every day and give our best for our customers and the entire security community. Our global engineering teams are at the centre of this mission and are dedicated to building a complete suite of industry-leading products which provide a cohesive platform for our customers. Our range of solutions spans vulnerability management, detection, automation, cloud security, and penetration testing; in order to build these products our teams work with an array of technologies including Java, Python, AWS and Go, just to name a few.
Join our engineering team to help us build and innovate great products on our Insight platform using the latest technologies to make the world a safer digital space.
About the Role
The Senior Manager, Software Engineering role is a part of our Product and Engineering team who are at the forefront of keeping our customers safe from attacks and breaches. In this role you will be focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible, and ensuring our products are delivering a secure experience. You will lead and inspire our engineering teams, and be responsible for the strategic direction of our product development, and ensure the delivery of high quality, scalable solutions that solve our customers security needs. You will manage a team of managers and engineers, and work closely with a cross functional team across the organisation to be successful.
You'll work on Rapid7's leading Command Platform, which offers customers a fully-integrated set of tools to secure their attack surface in a single solution. Our customers use the product capabilities to identify and remediate exposures and risk across multiple areas, which include cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
In this role, you will:

• Lead and develop multiple teams of backend, frontend, and automation engineers, including direct management of engineering managers.
• Define and execute technical strategy for the Exposure Command domain in alignment with product and platform goals.
• Establish and track engineering success metrics (e.g., system reliability, cycle time, quality metrics, customer-impact KPIs).
• Collaborate cross-functionally to influence product strategy, roadmap prioritization, and user experience decisions.
• Foster a high-performance engineering culture rooted in ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
• Drive operational excellence in areas such as system observability, incident response, developer productivity, and secure coding practices.
• Play an active role in engineering-wide initiatives, such as hiring strategy, org health, technical councils, or cross-team programs.
• Engage directly with customers and field teams to gather feedback, address needs, and improve product-market fit.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience managing managers and scaling high-performance, distributed engineering organisations.
• Strong technical background with experience leading teams that build large-scale distributed systems and data platforms.
• Strategic thinking and ability to balance short-term priorities with long-term technical investments.
• Deep experience with cloud-native architectures and containerized deployments; exposure to technologies like Go, Java, and Python, and cloud services.
• Strong delivery skills with a track record of managing multiple concurrent initiatives and achieving predictable outcomes.
• Commitment to team development: performance management, coaching, career pathing, and inclusive leadership.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Understanding of secure development practices and the specific challenges of building enterprise-grade security software.

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. Teams reflecting 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, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope - just like we've been doing for the past 20 years. If you're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.
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