Software Engineer 4

Black Duck Software, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Duck Software, Inc. is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead the Integrations team, shaping architectures for agentic workflows across IDE, CI/CD, and PR experiences.

You will prototype high-value solutions that bring Black Duck’s SAST, SCA, and DAST capabilities into developer tools and platforms. You will own the evolution of the MCP Gateway, drive API design, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product and AI teams to deliver scalable integrations for multiple

Qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering experience with leadership on cross-team systems.
• Hands-on experience building production agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience building or integrating Model Context Protocol servers, AI assistant tools, IDE extensions, plugin architectures.
• At least two years of hands-on experience applying LLMs in production workflows, including prompt engineering and API integrations.
• Strong API and systems design skills with shipping integrations and reusable connectors.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, pull request automation, and modern developer tooling.
• Proven ability to own technical projects end to end from opportunity to deployment and improvement.
• Strong cross-functional communication to explain technical trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Broad software engineering experience in Python, Java, or Go with modern source control platforms.

Responsibilities

• Shape the solution architecture for the Integrations team across IDE, CI/CD, and PR experiences.
• Prototype and deliver high-value agentic solutions integrating SAST, SCA, DAST capabilities into developer workflows.
• Design and implement production-grade agentic workflows spanning agents, tools, MCP servers, APIs, and integrations.
• Own the evolution of the Black Duck MCP Gateway for AI agents and developer platforms.
• Improve remediation guidance, bug fixes, and developer experience in agentic systems.
• Establish governance, permissions, data handling, observability, and auditability patterns.
• Build reliable integrations with source control, CI/CD, IDE, and AI-assisted development platforms.
• Review designs, raise engineering standards, and mentor engineers in integration patterns.
• Collaborate with Product, Applied AI, and platform engineering to translate customer needs into technical direction.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Agentic AI systems

LangChain

LangGraph

PydanticAI

API design

CI/CD & Git workflows

Cross-functional communication

Python/Java/Go

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

PydanticAI

GitHub

SDKs & connectors

Job description

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Company Background

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software while minimizing risk and maximizing speed and productivity. As a recognized pioneer in application security, Black Duck provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that help teams quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior.Through industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, Black Duck helps organizations strengthen security and software quality throughout DevSecOps and the software development life cycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape the solution architecture for the Integrations team, defining how agentic workflows, MCP surfaces, APIs, and multi-agent orchestration patterns work together across IDE, CI/CD, and pull request experiences.
• Identify opportunities to bring Black Duck’s SAST, SCA, and DAST capabilities into agentic developer workflows, then prototype, communicate, and deliver the highest-value solutions.
• Design and implement production-grade agentic workflows spanning agents, skills, tools, MCP servers, APIs, and reusable integration components.
• Own the technical evolution of the Black Duck MCP Gateway, expanding the tools and capabilities it provides to AI agents, IDEs, and developer platforms.
• Contribute to existing agentic capabilities, including SAST AI Fix Recommendation, by improving remediation guidance, fix generation, developer experience, and system reliability.
• Establish sound patterns for governance, authorization, permissions, data handling, observability, evaluation, and auditability in agentic systems.
• Build reliable integrations with source control, CI/CD, pull request, IDE, and AI-assisted development platforms.
• Review designs and implementations, raise engineering standards, and mentor engineers in agentic system design, API design, and modern integration patterns.
• Work across Product, Applied AI, and platform engineering to translate customer and developer needs into clear technical direction and deliverable solutions.

Required qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering experience, including a demonstrated record of technical leadership on complex, cross-team systems.
• Hands-on experience building production agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, task decomposition, tool use, agent hand-offs, or comparable patterns using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience building or integrating Model Context Protocol servers, AI assistant tools, IDE extensions, plugin architectures, or comparable developer-facing tool systems.
• At least two years of hands-on experience applying LLMs in production workflows, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, API-based model integration, structured outputs, or agent evaluation.
• Strong API and systems design skills, with experience shipping integrations, SDKs, reusable connectors, canonical models, or platform capabilities consumed by multiple systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git workflows, pull request automation, and modern developer tooling.
• A record of taking initiative and owning technical projects end to end, from identifying an opportunity and proposing a solution through design, implementation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineering, Product, Applied AI, and other stakeholders.
• Broad software engineering experience across one or more of Python, Java, and Go, along with APIs, distributed systems, and modern source control platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with application security, including SAST, SCA, DAST, ASPM, vulnerability management, or DevSecOps tooling.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar products.
• Deep technical experience with LLM integration, including vector databases and retrieval pipelines such as Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB, Qdrant, or pgvector.
• Experience with function calling, tool schemas, structured output parsing, prompt versioning, model evaluation, and agent observability.
• Experience publishing and maintaining developer-facing packages through ecosystems such as npm or PyPI.
• Background contributing to open-source developer tooling, SDKs, integrations, or platform projects.

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