Senior Software Engineer — Container Images & Security

About this role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer — Container Images & Security based in the United States.

The Senior Software Engineer will join an engineering team focused on building, securing, and maintaining production-ready container images at scale. This hands-on role combines advanced Linux systems engineering, vulnerability remediation, and software automation to strengthen the security and reliability of containerized applications. The successful candidate will take ownership of the complete container image lifecycle, from designing minimal and reproducible images to identifying vulnerabilities, implementing fixes, and validating runtime compatibility. Working across multiple Linux distributions and application ecosystems, the engineer will collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and security specialists to improve software supply chain security. This is an opportunity to solve complex technical challenges, develop scalable engineering solutions, and make a measurable impact on the security of modern software environments.

### Accountabilities

• Design, build, and maintain minimal, hardened, and production-ready container images across multiple Linux distributions and application runtimes.
• Own end-to-end vulnerability remediation across operating system packages, libraries, runtimes, and dependencies, including investigation, patching, rebuilding, and validation.
• Troubleshoot complex package compatibility, dependency resolution, build, and runtime issues while ensuring applications remain functional.
• Reduce container image size and attack surface by removing unnecessary packages, binaries, and dependencies.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated pipelines for image building, vulnerability scanning, remediation, testing, and publishing.
• Create internal tools and automation to manage image versioning, dependency updates, metadata...