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.
- Lead and inspire a team of talented software engineers to develop and maintain a world-class application security products.
- Drive the software development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.
- Champion agile practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement and rapid iteration.
- Leverage cloud services, our internal shared services and other internal products to create a cohesive, scalable, resilient and secure ecosystem.
- Leverage the latest AI tools to deliver innovative solutions to our customers and to enhance developer productivity and experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, operations, service delivery and customer success to deliver exceptional software solutions.
- Mentor and grow your team, promoting a culture of learning and innovation.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and technology so we continue to push the boundaries of the Application Security Testing market by delivering the most innovative and reliable services to our customers.
- Masters’ or Bachelor’s or Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- Excellent problem solving skills; strong logical reasoning and solution oriented thinking.
- 10+ years of software development experience building enterprise-grade customer facing products
- Must have 2+ years of people management experience for globally distributed full-stack engineering
- Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available, large scale, high performing multi-tenant enterprise SaaS applications
- Experience with building products and services using Golang, Java, Perl. Preferably Golang.
- Must have experience of delivery in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments
- Customer-first and results-oriented mindset and the ability to make practical decisions when making engineering choices.
- Excellent communications, and collaboration skills.
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
- Masters or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years software development experience building enterprise-grade customer-facing products
- 2+ years people management experience for globally distributed full-stack engineering teams
- Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available, large-scale, high-performing multi-tenant SaaS applications
- Experience building products and services using Java
- Experience building products and services using Perl
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with application security concepts and tools (SAST, SCA, DAST) or working in AppSec domain
- Strong problem solving, communication, collaboration skills, and customer-first mindset
- Experience delivering in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-site, multi-stakeholder environments
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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