Senior Software Engineer — Container Images & Security

RapidFort is looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our Curated Images team and help build, secure, and maintain production-ready container images at scale. This role combines deep Linux engineering, vulnerability remediation, and software automation. You will own the container image lifecycle—from building minimal, reproducible images to analyzing and remediating CVEs, validating runtime compatibility, and automating ongoing maintenance and publishing.

5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, Linux systems engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or SRE. Deep understanding of Linux systems, with hands-on experience across distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, or RHEL. Strong experience building and optimizing Docker images, including multi-stage builds, image layering, and container filesystem structures. Proven experience investigating and remediating CVEs in Linux packages and container images, including patching