# Senior Software Engineer (Runtimes)

About the RoleWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Never-Ending Support (NES) team. This role is specifically focused on developing and proving out new product lines in our runtimes. You will research new potential products to add to our ever expanding product line, produce critical security patches for CVEs in our various runtime products (PHP, Postgres, NGINX, etc.), deliver builds across many operating system distributions, and build the automation systems that make this work scale. Key Responsibilities Research and prove out new NES products: assess an end-of-life project's codebase, build system, and CVE history, then stand up a working, supportable build pipeline for it Maintain the existing NES portfolio by analyzing upstream security fixes and backporting CVE patches in C, C++, and other languages to end-of-life versions Implement more comprehensive or novel security fixes to end of life technologies Read, write, and review CVE backports, reasoning about what a patch might break across versions, platforms, and configurations Build and deliver packages across many Linux distributions (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Amazon Linux, and others), and add supp

- **Id**: 3865171
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/herodevs-senior-software-engineer-runtimes>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_company_offices
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T10:06:10Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T10:06:10Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4603
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 455859
- **Name**: Herodevs
- **Domain**: herodevs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/herodevs>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **CVE** — Optional: no
- **Debian** — Optional: no
- **GCC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Nginx** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Ubuntu** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **CVSS** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenSSL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T11:32:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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