Senior Director Engineering, Total Cloud

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! 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.