Senior Container Images & Security Engineer (Remote)

RapidFort, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health/dental/vision coverage

Remote-first

Career growth

Job summary

RapidFort, Inc. seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join the Curated Images team and own the lifecycle of production-ready container images, from building minimal images to remediating CVEs and automating maintenance.

You will collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and security to ensure compatibility across Linux distributions and runtimes, including Python, Go, and Java, while improving remediation speed and image quality for scalable deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering or SRE
• Deep Linux experience across Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine/RHEL
• Experience building Docker images with multi-stage builds
• CVE remediation in Linux packages and container images
• Strong package management knowledge (apt/apk/yum/dnf)
• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash for automation
• CI/CD pipelines experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• SBOM generation experience and vulnerability scanning tools

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain minimal, hardened container images across Linux distributions and runtimes
• Own end-to-end CVE remediation across OS packages, libraries, runtimes, and dependencies
• Troubleshoot complex package compatibility, dependency, build, and runtime issues
• Reduce image attack surface and size by removing unnecessary packages
• Build and improve automated pipelines for image builds, vulnerability scanning, remediation, testing, and publishing
• Develop tooling to manage image versioning, dependencies, metadata, and release traceability
• Generate, validate, and maintain SBOMs for supply chain visibility and compliance
• Validate image functionality and compatibility with Kubernetes and container environments
• Collaborate with teams to define image hardening standards and integration into workflows
• Maintain documentation to aid developers in adopting curated images
• Continuously improve remediation speed, image quality, and reliability

Skills

Linux systems

CVE remediation

Automation scripting

Python scripting

Go programming

Bash scripting

Collaboration

Debugging

Linux distributions

Package management

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Trivy

Grype

Clair

Cosign

Sigstore

Syft

Job description

RapidFort, Inc. seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join the Curated Images team and own the lifecycle of production-ready container images, from building minimal images to remediating CVEs and automating maintenance.

You will collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and security to ensure compatibility across Linux distributions and runtimes, including Python, Go, and Java, while improving remediation speed and image quality for scalable deployments.