Staff Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 6, 2026.
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
What you get to do
You will get to team up with incredibly talented and highly motivated engineers and architects innovating the next generation of Qualys Technology Platform processing over one hundred million transactions and terabytes of data per day.
As a part of this team, you will be working in a fast-paced environment prototyping, designing, developing, and supporting a highly scalable SaaS-based cloud security platform.
We leverage open-source technologies to solve challenging problems aligned with the enterprise security business needs
You will be working on groundbreaking ideas and innovations which will be translated into products as features or new products themselves.
Responsibilities
Research, prototype and develop solutions to innovate and improve Qualys’ technology platform.
Research and develop cloud native solutions across available public clouds e.g. AWS, AZURE, GCP, OCI etc.
Design and implement distributed, scalable, high-performance micro service-based applications
Produce high-quality software with a scalable architecture and design principles
Write unit/integration tests for your code
Document your code, design and provide solutions
Requisite Qualifications
Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills
Excellent programming and designing skills in Java with minimum 8+ years of professional experience developing applications using Spring Boot / micro-services.
Good understanding of relational databases and/or NoSQL DB, preferably Cassandra, Elasticsearch
Professional experience working on indexing technology like Elastic Search and caching technologies like Redis or Memcached
Good understanding of data structures and algorithms, application design.
Professional experience developing software using micro services oriented architecture.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands on knowledge of public cloud providers like AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI
Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science
Professional experience with Jenkins, and Kubernetes
Experience with stream processing technologies like Apache Kafka