Software Engineer
US$150,000 – US$200,000 / yr base salary
Posted 25 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior Software Engineer – Security & Distributed Systems”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$150,000 – US$200,000 / yr |
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Senior Software Engineer – Security & Distributed Systems
Location: United States — Remote
Department: Engineering
Company: RapidFort
Employment Type: Full-Time
U.S. Citizenship: Required
About RapidFort
RapidFort is a cybersecurity company focused on securing and optimizing modern software supply chains and cloud-native environments.
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.
We are building systems that operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, distributed systems, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
The Role
RapidFort is looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Security & Distributed Systems to join our engineering team.
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.
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.
This is not an SRE or infrastructure operations position. 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.
What You’ll Do
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Design, build, and maintain highly reliable backend services and distributed systems.
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Develop core components of RapidFort’s cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform.
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Build systems for processing, analyzing, and managing large volumes of security, vulnerability, package, container, and runtime data.
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Design scalable APIs, services, data pipelines, and internal platform components.
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Develop software that operates across Linux, containerized, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
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Solve complex problems involving concurrency, performance, scalability, reliability, and distributed processing.