
Staff Build Engineer
RAPIDFORT
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Build Engineering, DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering
- U.S. Citizenship required pursuant to federal contract and security requirements
- Deep Linux expertise and strong command-line fluency
- Strong Python and Bash scripting experience
- Advanced experience with Docker and container build systems, including debugging complex image issues
- Proven experience operating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines in production environments
- Hands-on experience maintaining and customizing Jenkins pipelines
- Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes, sufficient to diagnose image, deployment, and runtime issues
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and remote build environments
- Strong familiarity with Git-based workflows (GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket)
- Experience improving build reliability, performance, and throughput at scale
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud environments
- Familiarity with container security, image scanning, or software supply chain tooling
- Experience with observability tools and build metrics
- Experience working in early-stage startups or fast-scaling engineering environments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar)
- Exposure to regulated, government, or security-sensitive environments
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams
- Demonstrated ownership mindset and comfort owning routine operational responsibilities
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, vision, and paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonBashDockerCI/CDJenkinsKubernetesGitAWSAzureTerraform
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationownership mindset