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 mission‑critical 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 industry‑leading precision. You’ll 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 green‑field initiative while contributing to a product with a proven market footprint and decades of technical depth.
What You’ll 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 Coverity’s world‑class 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 root‑cause analysis and long‑term architectural improvements
- Write clean, robust, well‑tested code and contribute to thoughtful, high‑quality code reviews
- Influence architectural decisions, technical direction, and roadmap planning for new language support and green‑field 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 systems‑level engineering
- Experience developing on Linux, Windows and Mac
- Hands‑on 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 law. In 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.
