Senior Security & Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote

rapidfortinc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Remote-first work environment

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off and company holidays

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development and career‑g​

Opportunity to work on advanced cyber

Significant technical ownership and直接

Job summary

RapidFort is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Security & Distributed Systems to join our engineering team. This backend role involves building production software across distributed, containerized environments, handling large volumes of security and runtime data, and designing scalable components.

You will work on container images, SBOMs, vulnerability data, and security platform features, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally building backend platforms or distributed systems.
• Strong programming experience with Python, Go, C++, Java, or similar backend/system-level languages.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and production backend architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals.
• Experience building APIs, backend services, microservices, or large-scale data-processing systems.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing software for cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly reliable backend services and distributed systems.
• Develop core components of RapidFort's cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform.
• Build systems for processing, analyzing, and managing large volumes of security, vulnerability, package, container, and runtime data.
• Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and internal platform components.
• Develop software that operates across Linux, containerized, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
• Solve complex problems involving concurrency, performance, scalability, reliability, and distributed processing.
• Take ownership of projects from design through production deployment.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Java

Distributed systems

Linux

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

RapidFort is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Security & Distributed Systems to join our engineering team. This backend role involves building production software across distributed, containerized environments, handling large volumes of security and runtime data, and designing scalable components.

You will work on container images, SBOMs, vulnerability data, and security platform features, collaborating with researchers and product managers to deliver scalable solutions.