Senior Security Research Engineer (SecureChain)

TuxCare provides security solutions for Linux and open-source software used by enterprise organizations. Our products help companies automate vulnerability patching, reduce downtime, maintain security and compliance, and support critical systems throughout their lifecycle.

Learn more about TuxCare: tuxcare.com

We are looking for a Senior / Principal Security Research Engineer to start the Security Research & Automation function of SecureChain.

SecureChain is TuxCare's open-source software supply chain security product. It provides packages rebuilt from verified source code, scanned for malware and supply chain risks.

Learn more: tuxcare.com/securechain-for-oss

The Mission

You will be the first engineer of a new function, with a plan to grow it to three or four people. You are a security researcher first, and you build production-quality tools and pipelines to scale your research.

The function has three goals:

1. Detect malicious code before SecureChain publishes a package.
2. Build pipelines that find and help fix high and critical vulnerabilities in maintained and end-of-life open-source software.
3. Publish useful, evidence-backed security research after coordinated disclosure.

You will be responsible for:

• Owning SecureChain's malicious-code detector: alert review and classification, test corpus, quality benchmarks, false-positive and coverage metrics.
• Extending detection with artifact scanning, static signals, dynamic analysis and external intelligence.
• Building repeatable pipelines that discover new vulnerabilities in software that SecureChain and ELS support, with priority on high/critical risks and on EOL versions customers still use.
• Reproducing findings, proving impact and reachability, and storing evidence so another researcher can repeat the result.
• Developing AI-assisted methods to generate and test candidate fixes, and feeding them into our patch automation.
• Owning TuxCare CNA work: CVE assignment, record quality and coordinated disclosure with upstream projects.
• Preparing technical write-ups and research publications together with Marketing.

Your first 90 days:

• Days 1–30: take over the malicious-code detector, its sample review and CNA responsibilities; inventory services, data, prompts, corpus and open work.
• Days 31–60: improve the detector and its review workflow, measure alert volume, false positives and cost; start a vulnerability-discovery pilot on 5–10 packages of one ecosystem.
• Days 61–90: expand discovery across the ecosystem, complete coordinated disclosure where applicable, publish the first research output.

TuxCare provides security solutions for Linux and open-source software used by enterprise organizations. Our products help companies automate vulnerability patching, reduce downtime, maintain security and compliance, and support critical systems throug...

Must-haves:

• Security research background: malware or software supply-chain research, vulnerability discovery and root-cause analysis.
• Strong Python or another suitable systems language; you build tools and pipelines that run in production.
• CI pipelines, test automation and operating services.
• Practical use of static analysis, fuzzing and sandboxing.
• Heavy, daily use of AI-assisted tools in research and engineering.
• Experience with more than one package ecosystem (e.g. PyPI, npm, Maven, Go, Linux distributions).
• Clear research reports and experience with coordinated disclosure.
• Advanced written and spoken English.

Nice-to-haves:

• Published CVEs, advisories or security research.
• Experience with CNA operations or vulnerability databases (CVE, OSV).

This is not a SOC analyst, compliance, penetration testing or general software development role.