Staff Software Developer

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help implement complex and innovative solutions, and coach more junior engineers as we maintain and evolve our industry-leading application security platform. Join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries of web application development with agile practices, cloud-native patterns, state-of-the-art engineering methodologies and tools like GitHub Copilot and other AI/GenAI tools. 

The ideal candidate is an innovative thinker with proven track record of delivering complex, cross development teams solutions. A hands-on technology enthusiast, and a solid full-stack engineer, they also enjoy helping their peers and their organization remain at the forefront of our industry by identifying and helping implement the latest industry best-practices that boost our organization’s productivity and team members’ experience. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to the engineering team using best practices for SaaS and related technologies. 

• Collaborate with cross functional members, to design and deliver innovative and complex technical solution that benefit our customers. 

• Optimize system performance. 

• Help define development guidelines. 

• Mentor the other team members, provide coaching and technical training where needed. 

• Keep abreast of industry best practices, success and failures, and help the team adopt the right practices. 

Key Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience developing large enterprise applications using microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies, running on Kubernetes and/or cloud technologies.

• Proven track record of successfully leading cross-functional innovative projects 

• Expertise in at least one object-oriented programming language and scripting language (Java, Golang, python and Perl preferred) 

• Solid experience in systems design, including experience with scalable architecture, performance optimization 

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices 

• Solid problem-solving abilities 

• Ability to think strategically 

• Solid leadership skills 

• Excellent communication skills (in-person and remote) 

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.