Senior OS Engineer – Linux Security, Container Supply Chain

🕒 May 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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RAPIDFORT

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

RAPIDFORT is a software supply chain security company that delivers a SaaS platform to secure containerized applications from build-time through runtime. It provides curated near-zero‑CVE base images, CI/CD image scanning and execution profiling (SBOM/RBOM), automated CVE remediation, runtime hardening and attack-surface reduction, and compliance automation for standards like FedRAMP, SOC 2 and CMMC. The platform is aimed at enterprise engineering and security teams to automate vulnerability remediation, accelerate secure releases, and maintain continuous protection in production.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain secure Linux-based operating system components • Own end-to-end CVE remediation across Linux OS packages and system libraries • Analyze vulnerabilities affecting core OS components • Validate upstream fixes and determine patching or backporting strategies • Build and maintain secure, minimal, production-ready container images • Generate and maintain SBOMs for OS packages and container images • Design and scale automated pipelines for OS patching, package rebuilding, and image generation • Partner with platform, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in Linux systems engineering, OS engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or release engineering • Deep expertise in Linux operating systems and distributions (Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu, Alpine) • Strong experience with OS package management systems (apt, rpm, dnf, apk) • Hands-on experience patching, rebuilding, or maintaining OS packages • Strong understanding of Linux internals (processes, memory, filesystem, system libraries) • Experience working with system-level libraries and dependencies (glibc, openssl, etc.) • Deep knowledge of dependency resolution, ABI compatibility, and package lifecycle management • Experience with container internals and Linux runtime behavior • Experience remediating CVEs in OS packages and container environments • Understanding of SBOMs, software provenance, signing, and artifact trust models • Familiarity with supply chain security frameworks (e.g., SLSA, reproducible builds) • Strong scripting/programming ability in Python, Bash, Go, or C/C++

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental, and vision insurance • paid time off • equity participation