Senior Software Engineer
Qualys, Inc.3 days ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services, platform components, middleware systems, REST APIs, distributed services, and cloud-native applications.
- Own software features across design, development, testing, automation, deployment, release validation, and production support.
- Perform functional, integration, end-to-end, unit, and API-level validation and build automated test suites.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, performance optimization, scalability improvements, reliability initiatives, and observability.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, release validation, deployment automation, coding standards, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot distributed systems issues across services, databases, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Participate in root cause analysis, production support, technical mentorship, and adoption of engineering productivity practices.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience.
- Strong Java programming skills and knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, concurrency, and system design.
- Experience building REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Experience writing unit, integration, and API-level automated tests as part of the development lifecycle.
- Familiarity with automation and validation tools such as PyTest, JUnit, Rest Assured, Playwright, or Selenium.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipeline implementation and management.
- Experience with container registries including Docker Hub, OpenShift, and JFrog Artifactory.
- Strong understanding of databases, SQL optimization, and data modeling, with exposure to Cassandra, MongoDB, or Redis.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, along with knowledge of scalability, resiliency, observability, and production-grade system design.
- Preferred experience in SaaS, cloud security, or enterprise platforms.
- Familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, or Claude Code, and exposure to performance engineering and observability tools.
- Nice-to-have knowledge of MCP integrations, agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI-powered developer tooling, or LLM-based automation.
- Understanding of SRE concepts and production reliability engineering.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
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About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys builds a cloud-based security and compliance platform used by enterprises to automate vulnerability management, IT asset visibility, web application scanning, and policy/PCI compliance across on‑prem and cloud environments. Delivered as subscription SaaS, its Enterprise TruRisk Platform uses a single agent to provide continuous security telemetry for endpoints, servers, containers, and clouds. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Qualys is a public company trading on NASDAQ (QLYS).