Principal Software Engineer

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland • Posted June 02, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Dublin, County Dublin
Posted: June 02, 2026
Category: Computer Occupations
Application Deadline: July 12, 2026

Role Description

Rarely does an opportunity come to market that will allow a candidate to have such an influential role in the strategic direction of an organization like Rapid7. There will be many challenges such as designing a system to scale to traffic approaching 1 PB per day across the globe, while still allowing rapid and flexible search of this data with resilience and extensibility. This is a very high impact, high growth role and one of the most exciting engineering opportunities at Rapid7.

About the Team

Rapid7’s Log Search team is responsible for delivering the underlying massive data storage and search foundations for all of Rapid7’s products on the cloud-based Insight Platform. Our microservice architecture is designed to deliver a secure, reliable and resilient platform for both our Customers to use and for our endpoint products to build on. We are focussed on helping our customers seamlessly manage their security solutions as effectively and efficiently as possible,...

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