Linux Software and Security Engineer - eLxr

Overview

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers.

We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

eLxr is a Debian-based Linux distribution engineered for performance, reliability, and enterprise class security. We are expanding our core engineering team and seeking a Linux Software & Security Engineer with strong programming, packaging, and security expertise to help evolve and secure the platform.

As a Linux Software and Security Engineer on the eLxr team, you will design, develop, and maintain security related components across the distribution while also contributing to packaging, patching, and security vulnerability (CVE) remediation. This role combines hands-on development with distribution engineering responsibilities, including upstream patch contributions to Debian, package updates, and secure build workflow support.

• Develop and maintain software components used within the eLxr distribution (C/C++, Python, or similar languages).
• Create, update, and optimize Debian packages.
• Contribute fixes and patches upstream to Debian when appropriate, following community guidelines.
• Maintain and enhance build scripts, packaging pipelines, and system tooling to support secure and reproducible builds.
• Monitor upstream projects, Debian security alerts, mailing lists, and community patches to keep packages updated and secure.
• Collaborate on architecture and design decisions affecting distribution direction, package quality, and security posture.
• Document processes, package changes, upstream contributions, and security fixes for internal and external stakeholders.
• Work closely with kernel, platform, infrastructure, and security engineering teams.

• Investigate, triage, reproduce, and remediate CVEs across the distribution; create, backport, test, and sign patches.
• Implement distribution-wide hardening aligned with STIG, CIS Benchmarks, and secure coding guidelines.
• Participate in FIPS-related development and validation activities. Work with OpenSSL, GnuTLS, and other crypto toolkits to maintain secure configurations and enforce strong defaults.
• Develop and maintain secure boot, and trusted boot workflows (e.g., UEFI Secure Boot, TPM integration).

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 12+ years of hands-on experience in Linux engineering, software development, or distribution maintenance.
• Familiarity with STIG, CIS, FIPS 140‑x, NIST 800‑53, or similar security frameworks.
• Experience with secure boot, UEFI firmware, TPM, key signing, and related boot‑chain security.
• Knowledge of automated security scanning and vulnerability (CVE) management tools.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals;
  Debian experience preferred.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language (C/C++, Rust) and/or scripting languages (Python, shell).
• Understanding…