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Job Description
Qualys is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) team, responsible for building large-scale data platforms that power vulnerability management, asset discovery, and threat intelligence across millions of assets globally.
In this role, you will design and build high-performance distributed systems that process and analyze massive security datasets. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and architecture teams to develop scalable microservices and data pipelines that enable real-time security insights for enterprise customers.
This role requires strong expertise in Java, distributed systems, big data technologies, and large-scale search platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design
- Lead the design and architecture of scalable distributed systems for asset intelligence, finding intelligence and threat management.
- Define architecture patterns for microservices-based platforms handling high-volume data ingestion and processing.
- Drive technical direction and platform evolution for ETM data infrastructure.
Platform Development
- Design and implement high-performance backend services in Java.
- Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and streaming frameworks.
- Develop services that support real-time and batch data processing for security analytics.
Data Platform & Search
- Architect and maintain large-scale Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clusters used for asset indexing, finding indexing, its search, and analytics.
- Design productive indexing strategies and data models for efficient ingestion
- Optimize query performance and data retrieval across billions of records.
Scalability & Reliability
- Build fault-tolerant, highly available services capable of operating at cloud scale.
- Ensure systems meet performance, reli
📌 Principal Software Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Qualys
📍 Pune