Staff Engineer (remote work)

TuxCare offers security solutions for Linux and open-source software targeting enterprise organizations. Their products include KernelCare, which provides automated live patching for Linux kernels without reboots, and SecureChain, focusing on open-source software supply chain security. Both products aim to improve system security, minimize downtime, and maintain compliance. The hiring company, CloudLinux, supports fully remote work with flexible hours.

• Proven experience owning major projects, products, systems, or workstreams end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on development experience in Python.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking combined with hands-on implementation capability.
• Demonstrated experience building substantial systems or features and deploying them to production.
• Experience gathering and refining requirements into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Strong technical product ownership understanding engineering's role in business goals.
• Ability to work independently without close supervision.
• Strong communication skills and confidence collaborating 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 integrated in development workflow.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery goals with long-term scalability, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and interest in cybersecurity and complex technical problems.
• Advanced written and spoken English proficiency.

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