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.
Job Description:
About Black Duck Software:
The Software Integrity Group at Black Duck is looking for an Sr. Staff Site Reliability Engineer.
We are growing and our development environment is a mix of on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure. As a member of the release engineering team, you will have an opportunity to develop tools to automate infrastructure, automate process, develop re-usable libraries and build and release pipelines that use them. The ideal candidate will be a great communicator and a quality focussed innovator. You need to be willing to experiment and to learn quickly so we can be responsive to our stakeholders.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Uses technical knowledge and creativity to maximize CI/CD throughput by implementing proactive monitoring, scaling and alerting.
- Maintain and Deploy Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Pipelines using GitLab CI, docker and python libraries using Jenkins Pipelines with Groovy Libraries.
- Automate branching, tagging, and SCM administration for multiple projects.
- Maintain, Evolve and Create on-demand Infrastructure.
- Manage docker images for multiple teams.
- Maintain cloud-based Operating System Images for automated deployment.
- Apply OS patches to VM and Docker images as needed.
- Manage Release of VM Images/Virtual Applications into the Amazon and Google Marketplaces.
- Automate Deployment of Products with Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm/Compose, Terraform.
Key Qualifications:
- Unix Systems Administration (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Freebsd).
- Proven understanding of Dynamic and Static linking in software executables
- Automake, Autoconf, Libtool familiarity.
- Docker/VM image creation and System Administration
- Build Pipelines with CI/CD automation in Jenkins, Gitlab, Github, Concourse
- Infrastructure Automation with terraform or ansible.
- Python programming and package creation:
- Production Application Administration and Management
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning
- Bash Expertise
- Preferred Experience:
- Porting Software Between Unix Variants, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, AWS / GCP / Azure.
DevOps Automation:
- Object Oriented Programming
- C/C++ programing
- Java programming, Prometheus, Grafana
Inclusion and Diversity are important to us. Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, military veteran status, or disability.
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.
Skills Required
- Unix Systems Administration (Solaris, AIX, Linux, Freebsd)
- Proven understanding of Dynamic and Static linking in software executables
- Docker/VM image creation and System Administration
- Build Pipelines with CI/CD automation in Jenkins, Gitlab, Github, Concourse
- Infrastructure Automation with terraform or ansible
- Python programming and package creation
- Production Application Administration and Management
- Performance Monitoring and Tuning
- Bash Expertise
Black Duck Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Black Duck and has not been reviewed or approved by Black Duck.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage provide multiple plan choices with transparent costs, with carrier updates noted for 2026. Vision via VSP and dental plan options offer defined tiers and network access.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company matching alongside an employee stock purchase plan with a discount and lookback. These features support longer‑term savings and wealth building.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Exempt employees use a manager‑approved, no‑cap time‑off model, while non‑exempt employees accrue flexible time off alongside sick time. Paid leaves include parental and family care leave, with additional protections under applicable leave laws.
Black Duck Insights
What We Do
Organizations worldwide use Black Duck Software’s industry-leading products to secure and manage open source software, eliminating the pain related to security vulnerabilities, compliance and operational risk. Black Duck is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and has offices in San Jose, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Vancouver, Seoul & Beijing
Why Work With Us
We pride ourselves on cultivating an environment of collaboration, creativity, and fun! We know where you work can influence how you work, which is why our collaborative office space focuses on community and continuous learning. Our work-hard, play-hard attitude even got us named a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe!
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