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.
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.
We are looking for a seasoned software engineer to support and evolve our legacy licensing solutions while building modern, reliable systems for 24/7 customer use. This role focuses on application and service development, with responsibility for ensuring those services are operable and dependable in production.
As a License Developer, you will own your services end-to-end, including application development, deployment, and runtime operations. You will be responsible for contributing to the improvement of the deployment and operational environment supporting our licensing systems, building internal tools, and enabling product teams to integrate with our services. This is a full lifecycle engineering role: you are responsible for the design, delivery, and ongoing operation of your services, with support from shared platform and infrastructure tooling.
You should have a security-first mindset, be curious, collaborate effectively with your team, and enable engineering and operations.
Key Qualifications
- Ruby on Rails
- Linux
- Experience working with CI/CD systems and release pipelines
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application and production environments
- Ability to take over legacy code
- Understanding of Public/Private key encryption, key signing, certificate signing
- Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud and/or on-prem environments using standard tooling and automation
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Bonus skills
- Keygen.sh licensing
- Flexnet licensing
- Experience with containerized application deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, PaaS)
- Java (for legacy code)
- RESTful API development & use
- MCP server development & use
Key Responsibilities
- Own and deliver critical product functionality end-to-end
- Work with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Develop and maintain licensing code
- Maintain high code quality standards
- Develop and maintain integrations with tenant management system
- Leverage AI-assisted development and analysis tools to improve productivity and code
- Configure, deploy, and support licensing services and supporting components across cloud and on-prem environments
Personal Qualities
- Clear written and spoken English
- Can work independently or as part of a team
- Creative; A pleasure to work with
- Conscientious; You take pride in delivering high-quality solutions
- Integrity; You take responsibility for your actions
- Attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership
- You care about team success, not just your own
Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
Skills Required
- Ruby on Rails
- Linux
- Experience working with CI/CD systems and release pipelines
- Strong troubleshooting skills across application and production environments
- Ability to take over and maintain legacy code
- Understanding of public/private key encryption, key signing, certificate signing
- Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud and/or on-prem environments using standard tooling and automation
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Keygen.sh licensing
- FlexNet licensing
- Containerized application deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, PaaS)
- Java (for legacy code)
- RESTful API development & use
- MCP server development & use
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.
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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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