Senior Software Engineer – Security & Distributed Systems

<h1><strong>Senior Software Engineer – Security &amp; Distributed Systems</strong></h1> <p><strong>Location:</strong> United States — Remote<br><strong>Department:</strong> Engineering<br><strong>Company:</strong> RapidFort<br><strong>Employment Type:</strong> Full-Time<br><strong>U.S. Citizenship:</strong> Required</p> <h2><strong>About RapidFort</strong></h2> <p>RapidFort is a cybersecurity company focused on securing and optimizing modern software supply chains and cloud-native environments.</p> <p>Our technology helps organizations reduce software vulnerabilities and attack surface by identifying and removing unnecessary components from containerized applications. RapidFort works with enterprise and U.S. public-sector customers operating highly complex, security-sensitive environments.</p> <p>We are building systems that operate at the intersection of <strong>cybersecurity, distributed systems, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure</strong>.</p> <h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>RapidFort is looking for a <strong>Senior Software Engineer – Security &amp; Distributed Systems</strong> to join our engineering team.</p> <p>This is a hands-on backend engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems and building production software that operates across distributed, containerized environments.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This is <strong>not an SRE or infrastructure operations position</strong>. We are looking for a software engineer who builds systems and products, with strong knowledge of the infrastructure and environments in which those systems operate.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Design, build, and maintain highly reliable backend services and distributed systems.</p> </li> <li> <p>Develop core components of RapidFort’s cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform.</p> </li> <li> <p>Build systems for processing, analyzing, and managing large volumes of security, vulnerability, package, container, and runtime data.</p> </li> <li> <p>Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and internal platform components.</p> </li> <li> <p>Develop software that operates across Linux, containerized, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.</p> </li> <li> <p>Solve complex problems involving concurrency, performance, scalability, reliability, and di