Senior Software Engineer, Cybersecurity & Kernel Dev

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC

Huntsville (AL)

On-site

USD 122,000 - 253,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

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401k • PTO • Holidays

Job summary

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC seeks a highly skilled software engineer to develop secure software for our commercial product team, focusing on low-level systems, kernel/driver work, and cross-architecture concerns in a security-first environment.

The role emphasizes building and debugging across Linux, with experience in virtualization, containers, and cryptography to secure systems at the lowest levels. Strong communication and collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

  • Experience with C/C++ development and systems programming.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux OS internals and debugging kernel/user-space.
  • Experience delivering software products to commercial and government customers.
  • Familiarity with assembly and calling conventions for multiple architectures.

Skills

C/C++ development
Bash scripting
OS internals (Linux)
System & app debugging
Assembly (x86/x86_64)
Leading software delivery
Kernel/Driver development
Build systems (Make/CMake)
Concurrency & parallelism

Tools

Linux kernel building
Red Hat / RHEL
Yocto
QEMU
KVM
VMware
Docker
Podman
Kubernetes

Job description

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC seeks a highly skilled software engineer to develop secure software for our commercial product team, focusing on low-level systems, kernel/driver work, and cross-architecture concerns in a security-first environment.

The role emphasizes building and debugging across Linux, with experience in virtualization, containers, and cryptography to secure systems at the lowest levels. Strong communication and collaboration are essential.

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