Senior Software Engineer – Security & Distributed Systems

About the Role:

• This is a hands-on backend engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems and building production software across distributed, containerized environments.
• You will design and develop backend services and distributed systems that power RapidFort’s security platform, working with large volumes of software, vulnerability, container, and runtime data.
• This is not an SRE or infrastructure operations position; we are looking for a software engineer who builds systems and products.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, build, and maintain highly reliable backend services and distributed systems.
• Build systems for processing, analyzing, and managing large volumes of security, vulnerability, package, container, and runtime data.
• Solve complex problems involving concurrency, performance, scalability, reliability, and distributed processing.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience 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, Linux internals, containers, and Kubernetes.

Why RapidFort:

• Opportunity to work on technically challenging problems at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, and cloud-native technology.
• Work directly with experienced engineers and company leadership with meaningful ownership over architecture and implementation.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package including equity, medical, dental, vision, and remote-first work environment.