Staff Engineer for KernelCare and SecureChain

TuxCare offers a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions for Linux and open-source software designed for enterprise organizations. With TuxCare, companies can automate vulnerability patching, minimize downtime, maintain security and compliance, and rely on deep expertise in Linux and open-source security. Our solutions cover widely used Linux distributions, end-of-life systems, open-source software ecosystems, and other critical infrastructure.

The Role

The role combines deep technical execution with technical product ownership and is approximately 70% hands-on software engineering and 30% technical product ownership. You will lead significant product components and workstreams end-to-end: clarifying requirements with stakeholders, defining milestones, designing solutions, contributing production code, delivering functionality to customers, and ensuring its continued reliability in production.

This is an individual contributor role, not a people-management position. We are looking for someone who can operate autonomously, navigate ambiguity, and drive complex initiatives forward without relying on a manager to define every next step. As the product and priorities evolve, curiosity, adaptability, and a broad interest in the cybersecurity area will be important for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own major product components and workstreams throughout their full lifecycle, from initial discovery and planning to production release and ongoing improvement.
• Work directly with engineering, product, sales, and other stakeholders to understand, gather, and clarify business and technical requirements.
• Translate broad product goals into technical plans, milestones, and actionable engineering tasks.
• Design scalable system architecture and make technical decisions for high-impact product areas.
• Build, review, and maintain production-grade components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Take responsibility for delivered components in production and their continued operation and evolution.
• Independently track progress and proactively communicate results, blockers, risks, dependencies, and changing requirements.
• Research relevant technologies, tools, market approaches, and competitor solutions when needed.
• Contribute to engineering quality through design reviews, technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices.
• Use AI-assisted development tools as part of the regular engineering workflow for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, automation, and code review.

Requirements

• Proven experience owning major projects, products, systems, or workstreams end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on Python development experience.
• Strong hands-on Linux experience and confidence working with Linux-based production environments.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking, combined with the ability to implement proposed solutions hands-on.
• Demonstrated experience building substantial systems or features and taking them through production release.
• Experience gathering and refining requirements and turning broad needs into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Strong technical product ownership and an understanding of how engineering decisions support broader product and business goals.
• Ability to work independently without close day-to-day supervision.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to clearly explain technical decisions, trade-offs, progress, risks, dependencies, and blockers.
• Regular use of AI-assisted development tools for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, automation, or code review.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and an interest in cybersecurity and complex technical problems.
• Advanced written and spoken English.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with CVEs, vulnerability management, or security-related engineering workflows.
• Understanding of commercial processes and how technical decisions can support product and business objectives.

Benefits

• Stay hands-on technically while owning complex, high-impact engineering work.
• Work on challenging Linux, automation, and cybersecurity problems across mature and newer products.
• Influence technical direction and make meaningful architectural decisions.
• Work independently with a high level of ownership and autonomy.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
• 24 paid vacation days, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
• Private medical insurance compensation.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Education budget.
• Opportunity to receive a reward for innovative ideas that the company can patent.