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Remove 95% of CVEs automatically with no code change

Senior Linux Distribution Engineer – Software Supply Chain Security

Security EngineerSecurity EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2020H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

70 days ago

Salary

$150K - $200K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishKubernetesLinuxPythonGo

Job Description

Senior Linux Distribution Engineer – Software Supply Chain Security

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• Own end-to-end vulnerability remediation across Linux package ecosystems and container images. • Analyze CVEs affecting OS packages, runtimes, libraries, and transitive dependencies across multiple Linux distributions. • Validate upstream fixes, evaluate patch applicability, and determine appropriate remediation strategies. • Rebuild, backport, patch, curate, sign, and publish packages across multiple Linux distribution branches. • Maintain and manage trusted package repositories across diverse Linux ecosystems. • Resolve complex dependency, compatibility, and ABI issues across distributions and package versions. • Ensure package and image updates do not break customer environments, builds, or runtime compatibility. • Design and scale automated pipelines for package rebuilding, validation, remediation, signing, publishing, and image generation. • Integrate package validation, repository management, and remediation workflows into pipelines. • Generate and maintain SBOMs, package metadata, provenance data, and trusted software artifacts. • Improve image performance, package footprint, startup efficiency, and operational reliability. • Research emerging threats and best practices in Linux distributions, containers, Kubernetes, and software supply chain security.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering, Linux distribution engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, release engineering, or SRE.
  • Deep expertise in Linux distributions and package ecosystems.
  • Strong experience with Linux package build systems and tooling including rpmbuild, dpkg-buildpackage, APKBUILD/abuild, and associated repository and release tooling.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Linux package managers including dpkg/apt, rpm/yum/dnf, apk, and associated repository tooling.
  • Proven experience rebuilding, patching, backporting, maintaining, or publishing Linux packages across distribution versions.
  • Strong understanding of package repositories, dependency resolution, ABI compatibility, package signing, and release workflows.
  • Experience identifying and remediating vulnerabilities within Linux packages and containerized environments.
  • Deep understanding of container internals, Linux, namespaces, and runtime behavior.
  • Strong scripting or programming skills in Bash, C/C++, Python, Go, and other languages.
  • Experience building CI/CD automation for package validation, remediation, release, and repository management workflows.
  • Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts including SBOMs, provenance, signing, and artifact trust.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux systems, package ecosystems, dependency graphs, and build pipelines.

Benefits

  • healthcare
  • PTO
  • equity participation

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