Senior Software Engineer

Actively Reviewing the Applications

Qualys

India, Maharashtra, Pune Full-Time On-site

Posted 3 weeks ago • Apply by May 29, 2026

Job Description

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

Job Description

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

Lead the development initiative for building 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

10 years development experience including relevant experience developing SaaS-based software products
5 years experience with managing teams of engineers.
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 programming skills including object-oriented design, prototyping, development, testing, profiling, etc.
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