# Senior Platform Engineer, Embedded Linux & Security

Senior Platform Engineer, Embedded Linux & Security About the role This role secures embedded Linux devices and the infrastructure behind them, from boot and provisioning through release, deployment, and cloud services. You'll join a small engineering team as a senior individual contributor, working across device security, DevOps, and backend development. What you'll do Work with and improve secure device provisioning and hardware-backed security, including fusing, signing, device identity, secure boot, attestation, and disk encryption. Help define and harden software release processes from source to device. Help design device authentication and authorization services. Harden device images and container runtimes, including mandatory access control such as AppArmor or SELinux. Run services with least privilege: systemd sandboxing, non-root accounts, and correct file ownership and permissions. Set SSH and firewall policy, and close debug paths such as UART, JTAG, and USB recovery. Secure web services on devices and in the cloud with TLS and mTLS, reverse proxies, and least-privilege service accounts. Threat model the platform, help scope pentests, and track vulnerabilities. P

- **Id**: 4004719
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/swan-senior-platform-engineer-embedded-linux-security>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T03:11:19Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T06:26:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3438
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Defense AI, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 3787237
- **Name**: Swan
- **Domain**: swan.tech
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/swan-6>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 175000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CMMC** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T06:26:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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