Staff Software Engineer – Build Platform

🕒 July 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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RAPIDFORT

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Defense • Healthcare

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

• Own the architecture and long-term technical strategy for RapidFort's Build Platform. • Design and operate highly scalable distributed build systems capable of producing and maintaining thousands of production-ready container images. • Build automated systems for image creation, validation, signing, publishing, and lifecycle management. • Improve build performance, scalability, reproducibility, reliability, and operational efficiency. • Design automation that eliminates manual engineering work while improving developer productivity. • Develop internal tooling and platform services using Python, Bash, and modern cloud-native technologies. • Solve complex Linux, dependency management, networking, container, and build-system challenges. • Drive engineering standards around software supply chain integrity, reproducible builds, and platform reliability. • Partner closely with Platform Engineering, Security Research, Product Engineering, and Infrastructure teams. • Lead architecture reviews and influence technical decisions across multiple engineering organizations. • Mentor senior engineers and help raise the technical bar across the company. • Continuously identify opportunities to simplify systems, improve reliability, and reduce operational overhead.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or developer platform experience. • Demonstrated experience architecting and operating large-scale build platforms or distributed infrastructure. • U.S. Citizenship required pursuant to applicable federal customer requirements. • Deep expertise with Linux systems and operating system internals. • Expert knowledge of Docker, OCI container images, and container ecosystems. • Strong Python development experience. • Strong Bash scripting skills. • Experience designing distributed automation systems and developer platforms. • Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments. • Experience operating modern CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, GitLab CI, or equivalent. • Strong understanding of software build systems, dependency management, package management, and artifact lifecycle. • Experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in production. • Strong Git-based development workflows. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence engineering across multiple teams. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives without direct management responsibility.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual performance bonus • Meaningful equity participation • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) • Flexible PTO • Flexible work environment • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cybersecurity and cloud-native technologies • Direct influence on the architecture and technical direction of a rapidly growing cybersecurity company