Senior Staff R&D Engineer - OSS Governance Platform

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Staff R&D Engineer to build substantial capabilities in a centralized platform for open-source component information, decisions, and evidence. The engineer will bring strong C and C++ knowledge and hands-on Perforce experience to ensure the platform covers the organization’s established product-development environments. Python will be used for services, automation, and integrations with Jenkins, GitHub or Azure DevOps Server, Black Duck, and JFrog.

What Success Looks Like

The engineer delivers reliable platform domains that support Perforce and C/C++ product teams, maintains trustworthy data, reduces manual governance work, and enables stable integrations through well-tested interfaces.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, information security, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on software engineering experience in C and C++.
• Hands-on experience with Perforce in a production software-development environment.
• Experience with Python for automation, integration, services, or data-processing tasks.
• Experience with Jenkins and with at least one of GitHub or Azure DevOps Server.
• Experience using Black Duck and JFrog in SSDLC, software composition analysis, artifact management, or software supply-chain workflows.
• Ability to support products that use programming languages and build ecosystems beyond C, C++, and Python.
• Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly in English.
• Strong experience designing APIs, relational or document-oriented data models, and data-intensive backend services.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, role-based access, and secure API design.

Key Responsibilities

• Own backend services for component records, decisions, evidence, and workflow state.
• Design data models for packages, versions, dependencies, vulnerabilities, licenses, approvals, and exceptions.
• Develop integrations with Perforce, Jenkins, Black Duck, and JFrog.
• Support GitHub and Azure DevOps Server integrations where product workflows require them.
• Implement review, approval, exception, renewal, and audit workflows.
• Lead design reviews, testing strategy, diagnostics, and operational readiness.
• Mentor engineers and improve shared engineering patterns.

Preferred Experience

• Knowledge of package URL, SPDX, CycloneDX, SBOM, or VEX.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, queues, search platforms, or graph databases.