Bloomberg

Senior Software Engineer - Base Layers

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Base Salary

$160k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build composable, highly reliable operating system and container image pipelines for on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Define, implement, and enforce secure OS and container baselines, including CIS-aligned controls.
  • Develop automation frameworks and developer-facing APIs for image creation and testing.
  • Implement image lineage, asset tracking, and SBOM generation for supply-chain traceability.
  • Integrate automated testing and verification into image pipelines.
  • Build tools and web interfaces for inspecting image state, metadata, provenance, and compatibility.
  • Contribute to and collaborate on open source tooling.
  • Operate and improve large-scale distributed systems and automation for global fleets.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with an object-oriented programming language such as Python, C/C++, or Java.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Strong Linux/Unix systems background, including operating system internals, hardening, and configuration.
  • Experience designing and operating highly available, large-scale systems.
  • Familiarity with OS baseline and container security concepts.
  • Familiarity with Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, or similar containerization technologies and their security implications.
  • Preferred experience with image-building systems such as Packer or Kairos and CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins.
  • Preferred production experience with configuration management, orchestration, or workflow systems such as Chef, Ansible, Salt, or Airflow.
  • Preferred experience enforcing secure operating system baselines or container layers.
  • Experience with systems or product development languages such as Go, React, TypeScript, or Ruby is welcomed.
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects is welcomed.
  • Strong interest in testing, observability, and reliability engineering practices is welcomed.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment.
  • Salary range of $160,000–$240,000 USD annually, plus benefits and bonus.
  • Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) match, life insurance, and wellness programs.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache AirflowCC++ChefDockerGoJavaJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPythonReactRubyTypeScript

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10,000+ employees

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency and efficiency, and fairness to markets. We help connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. We challenge the status quo through constant innovation. We collaborate broadly because we know that other perspectives matter. We put our customers first, as a guiding beacon. And we believe doing the right thing – by our people, our clients, and our communities – is the best thing for our business.

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