Senior OS Engineer — Linux Security & Container Supply Chain

about 2 months ago

Remote, WorldwideSenior

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end CVE remediation across Linux OS packages and system libraries.
Analyze vulnerabilities affecting core OS components.
Validate upstream fixes and determine patching or backporting strategies.
Rebuild, patch, and curate OS packages across multiple Linux distributions.
Build and maintain secure, minimal, production-ready container images.
Remove unnecessary packages and reduce image attack surface.
Ensure OS-level changes propagate safely into container environments.
Validate image integrity, compatibility, and runtime stability.
Generate and maintain SBOMs for OS packages and container images.
Implement provenance, signing, and artifact trust mechanisms.
Ensure reproducible and verifiable builds across OS components.
Strengthen software supply chain security across all image pipelines.
Design and scale automated pipelines for OS patching, package rebuilding, and image generation.
Integrate CVE scanning, remediation, and validation into CI/CD workflows.
Build tooling for OS-level dependency tracking and vulnerability analysis.
Improve build efficiency, reliability, and reproducibility.
Partner with platform, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams.
Work closely with engineering teams to integrate secure OS layers into product pipelines.
Support production environments with stable, secure OS baselines.

5+ years in Linux systems engineering, OS engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or release engineering.
Deep expertise in Linux operating systems and distributions.
Strong experience with OS package management systems.
Hands-on experience patching, rebuilding, or maintaining OS packages.
Strong understanding of Linux internals.
Experience working with system-level libraries and dependencies.
Deep knowledge of dependency resolution, ABI compatibility, and package lifecycle management.
Experience with container internals and Linux runtime behavior.
Experience remediating CVEs in OS packages and container environments.
Understanding of SBOMs, software provenance, signing, and artifact trust models.
Familiarity with supply chain security frameworks.
Strong scripting/programming ability in Python, Bash, Go, or C/C++.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines for OS or system-level build processes.
Strong debugging skills across Linux systems and build environments.