C++ Software Engineer (Lead)

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.

Senior Software Engineer C / Compilers / Static Analysis (Coverity)

Coverity is a recognized leader in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) trusted by thousands of engineering teams to secure missioncritical software across industries such as aerospace automotive medical devices and advanced systems software. We are looking for an exceptional senior developer with deep experience in C and a passion for programming languages compilers and developer tooling to join our team.

Our customers rely on Coverity to detect complex defects with industryleading precision. Youll play a central role in advancing the language frontends and analysis capabilities that make this possible. This is a rare opportunity to work on a greenfield initiative while contributing to a product with a proven market footprint and decades of technical depth.

What Youll Do

• Design and implement language parsers and frontends for a broad set of programming languages
• Develop and extend semantic models AST representations and language feature support for integration with Coveritys worldclass analysis engine
• Collaborate with static analysis experts security researchers and compiler engineers to push the boundaries of detection accuracy and scalability
• Profile optimize and refactor complex C components to improve performance maintainability and analysis throughput
• Investigate challenging issues across parsing semantic analysis and engine integration; drive rootcause analysis and longterm architectural improvements
• Write clean robust welltested code and contribute to thoughtful highquality code reviews
• Influence architectural decisions technical direction and roadmap planning for new language support and greenfield projects
• Mentor junior engineers and share your experience as a senior software engineer

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of professional experience in C/C development
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong background in data structures algorithms and systemslevel engineering
• Experience developing on Linux Windows and Mac
• Handson experience with programming languages compilers static analysis or application security

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep interest or experience in parsers compiler frontends AST design or semantic analysis
• Experience working across multiple platforms and toolchains
• Passion for static program analysis language theory and building tools that help developers write safer more reliable software

Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender preference national origin age disability or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal addition Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.