Software Engineer 3

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

We are looking for a seasoned software engineer to support and evolve our legacy licensing solutions while building modern, reliable systems for 24/7 customer use. This role focuses on application and service development, with responsibility for ensuring those services are operable and dependable in production.

As a License Developer, you will own your services end-to-end, including application development, deployment, and runtime operations. You will be responsible for contributing to the improvement of the deployment and operational environment supporting our licensing systems, building internal tools, and enabling product teams to integrate with our services.  This is a full lifecycle engineering role: you are responsible for the design, delivery, and ongoing operation of your services, with support from shared platform and infrastructure tooling.

You should have a security-first mindset, be curious, collaborate effectively with your team, and enable engineering and operations.

Key Qualifications

• Ruby on Rails
• Linux
• Experience working with CI/CD systems and release pipelines
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application and production environments
• Ability to take over legacy code
• Understanding of Public/Private key encryption, key signing, certificate signing
• Experience deploying and operating applications in cloud and/or on-prem environments using standard tooling and automation
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Bonus skills

• Keygen.sh licensing
• Flexnet licensing
• Experience with containerized application deployment (e.g., Kubernetes, PaaS)
• Java (for legacy code)
• RESTful API development & use
• MCP server development & use

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver critical product functionality end-to-end
• Work with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Develop and maintain licensing code
• Maintain high code quality standards
• Develop and maintain integrations with tenant management system
• Leverage AI-assisted development and analysis tools to improve productivity and code
• Configure, deploy, and support licensing services and supporting components across cloud and on-prem environments

Personal Qualities

• Clear written and spoken English
• Can work independently or as part of a team
• Creative; A pleasure to work with
• Conscientious; You take pride in delivering high-quality solutions
• Integrity; You take responsibility for your actions
• Attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership
• You care about team success, not just your own

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.