Staff Build Engineer

Location: U.S. (Remote)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizenship required (federal programs & contracts)

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About RapidFort

RapidFort builds hardened, production-ready container images and automation that help enterprises and U.S. government agencies reduce software supply chain risk and deploy secure workloads faster.

We go beyond vulnerability scanning. Our platform is remediation-first, focused on runtime hardening, minimal attack surface, and operational simplicity for cloud-native and Kubernetes environments. Our customers run mission-critical workloads — including regulated and DoD-adjacent environments — and they depend on us to get this right every day.

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The Role

We’re hiring a Staff Build Engineer — a deeply experienced, hands-on engineer who thrives close to the metal and takes full ownership of systems that must work.

This role sits at the core of RapidFort’s product. You will own the build pipelines, hardened container image catalog, and automation systems that power everything we ship. You’ll be the engineer teams rely on when builds fail, scale introduces friction, or reliability matters more than speed.

This is not a passive DevOps role. It’s for someone who:

• Knows Linux and containers inside and out

• Is calm, decisive, and effective in high-impact operational environments

• Thinks in terms of reliability, repeatability, and scale

• Improves systems steadily rather than chasing shiny tools

You will act as both operator and senior technical owner, keeping today’s builds rock-solid while evolving the platform as RapidFort grows.

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What You’ll Do

• Own and execute daily builds and publish a trusted, up-to-date catalog of RapidFort’s curated container images

• Maintain, monitor, and continuously improve the entire build environment, including Docker builds, image tooling, automation, and supporting infrastructure

• Triage and debug build failures, container issues, and image-related problems across engineering teams

• Write and maintain automation and internal tooling in Python and Bash

• Partner closely with application and platform engineers to improve build workflows, reduce friction, and increase reliability

• Drive CI/CD stability, performance, and consistency across environments

• Scale build infrastructure to support increasing image volume, customers, and engineering velocity

• Identify and eliminate manual or error-prone processes through automation

• Document critical workflows and operational runbooks

• Serve as a senior technical voice on build systems, container tooling, image hardening, and supply chain integrity

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Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Build Engineering, DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering&