StaffSoftwareEngineer

# Staff Software Engineer – Cloud Security (CSPM) ## About the Team InsightCloudSec is Rapid7’s cloud security platform, helping customers identify and remediate risk across AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and AliCloud. The Exposure Detection pillar is responsible for defining and detecting cloud risk at scale, with Compliance driving our CSPM coverage and ensuring customers can assess their environments against security standards with confidence. ## About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer within the Exposure Detection pillar, you will provide technical leadership across our Compliance-driven CSPM coverage. You will shape how we design, scale, and evolve detection systems that evaluate cloud configurations across major providers. This is a hands-on leadership role based in Pune, India. While there are no direct management responsibilities, mentoring and coaching are core expectations — you will act as a multiplier, raising engineering standards and accelerating delivery through others. In this role, you will: * In collaboration with senior engineering leaders, lead the architecture and design of scalable systems that evaluate cloud configurations against compliance standards * Translate security and compliance frameworks into efficient, testable detection logic * Drive technical direction during planning, ensuring coverage investments align with customer impact * Identify and resolve systemic scaling, accuracy, and reliability challenges * Elevate engineering quality through rigorous design reviews, code reviews, and documentation standards * Mentor and coach engineers, strengthening both cloud domain expertise and distributed systems depth * Contribute to broader Cloud Security architecture and engineering strategy ## The skills you’ll bring include: 9+ years of software engineering experience, including building and scaling cloud-native or distributed systems. ### Leadership & Impact * Proven ability to influence technical direction without formal authority * Strong s