Software Engineer, Sustaining Automation

Overview

Hands-on Software Engineer role on the Package and Image Automation team within Sustaining Automation, building systems and AI-powered tooling that keep packages and container images current, tested, and building cleanly.

What you'll do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of systems that orchestrate package creation, test generation, and image building.
• Develop LLM-integrated, agentic pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation, including prompt architectures, evaluation loops, and quality gates.
• Develop production Go, including CLI tools, services, and integrations.
• Develop tooling and automation that improves customer reliability, including test generators, validation frameworks, and quality gates.
• Contribute ideas and technical input into squad planning and roadmap.
• Collaborate with teammates across time zones.

What you'll need

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping production systems.
• Strong Go skills.
• Experience with AI/LLM usage to generate, review, and test code.
• Systems design skills: ability to contribute to loosely-coupled, scalable systems and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Experience building developer tools, CLIs, or automation platforms.
• Container ecosystem knowledge: Docker, OCI, container registries, Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills: ability to write clear technical documents, work autonomously, and collaborate across teams and time zones.
• Based in the US or Canada.
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Nice to have

• Experience working on or contributing to a Linux distribution (e.g., Wolfi, Red Hat, Ubuntu, or similar).
• Background maintaining a large number of services in production.
• Contributions to open-source projects.
• Familiarity with software supply chain security (SBOM, provenance, signing).
• Experience with melange, apko, or Wolfi.
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FIPS, STIG).

Details

• Location: Canada or United States, remote.
• Base salary range: $121,000 - $142,000 USD.
• Collaboration primarily with US/Canada teammates, with close collaboration across EU and India-based colleagues on adjacent squads.