Staff Software Engineer – Build Platform
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RapidFortCybersecurity
Remote (U.S.) or Hybrid (Bay Area Preferred)Full-TimeStaff
Salary$150,000–$200,000, depending on experience and qualifications
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- DockerPythonBashGitKubernetesCI/CDLinuxDistributed Systems
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.
- 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.
- Strong Git-based development workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives without direct management responsibility.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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