Intermediate Development Engineer

DescriptionActiveState enables DevOps, InfoSec, and Development teams to improve their security posture while simultaneously increasing productivity and innovation to deliver secure applications faster. We are the only solution in the market today that offers vulnerability-free open source language packages and containers and Intelligent Remediation, which identifies which vulnerabilities to prioritize, assesses the impact of updates causing breaking changes, prioritizes what to fix first, securely builds open source packages from source, and facilitates the build and deploy process to get fixes into production quickly and easily. All from the trusted partner that pioneered and continues to lead enterprise adoption and use of open source software.As a Development Engineer on our team, you will be helping us build our products across multiple platforms.Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, CI for testing, and agile development with Jira as our project management tool. We’re always looking to improve our practices and we expect you to help us to do so.Our team is scattered around the US and Canada, so we coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Pivotal Tracker, and Google Drive.We like to use open source software whenever possible, and we also like to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code. Key Responsibilities

• Own & Drive Your Work

  • Complete assigned tasks independently, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and tested solutions.

  • Identify unclear or incomplete work, ensuring that it has an appropriate owner and is actionable.

• Build & Package Management

  • Manage packaging updates with an emphasis on reliability and automation.

  • Contribute to continuous improvements in the build pipeline and deployment process.

• Maintenance & Growth

  • Maintain and improve package stability through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 4+ years of experience

• High Proficiency in at least one of the following language ecosystems (Go, Dotnet, Rust, C#, Java, JavaScript). And desire to learn other languages

• Familiarity with the Standards and practices of the language ecosystem ( How are dependencies and requirements described? What versions are LTS? How are releases managed? What are Common environment configurations?)

• Compiling language modules from a specified language ecosystem.

• Runtime testing language modules from a specified language ecosystem.

• Computer Science Degree or equivalent

• Experience with software build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or automated deployment tools.

• Low level understanding of Linux binaries

• Experience with compiling code, and linking.

• Ability to independently manage tasks and identify gaps in work, ensuring alignment with broader goals.

• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on risk assessment and long-term platform reliability.

• Clear and effective communication—able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• A proactive and collaborative approach, volunteering to help teammates and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.

• A curiosity-driven mindset, capable of defining and executing experiments to improve processes.

Assets

• Experience working on a build system.

• Agile processes, including breaking large projects up into smaller stories, estimation, working in branches (GitHub Flow), code review, and CI.

• C or C++ code and debugging compiler issues across platforms.

• Experience writing Python code.

• Experience developing tools, or automating tasks.

• Experience writing Dockerfiles.

• Java, C-Sharp, JavaScript, Go, R, Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby, especially an understanding of their respective language communities and their toolchains.

• Build tools such as make, autotools, cmake, meson, bazel, etc.

• Security hardening and remediation.

• Experience with AI

Benefits

• A remote-first culture with a focus on work-life balance and flexibility.

• The opportunity to work on a mission-driven product that has a meaningful impact on the global software ecosystem.

• A collaborative and innovative environment with a team of passionate and talented individuals.