Staff Engineer, Imunify360 (remote work)

About the role

CloudLinux is a global remote first company that delivers Linux infrastructure and security products. The Staff Engineer for Imunify360 will drive technical alignment across the product, own end to end architecture, and remain an active contributor writing production code 30 to 50 percent of the time.

What you'll do

• Own end to end architecture of Imunify360 across agent, server, and cloud backends.
• Write ADRs, RFCs, and lead cross-squad architecture syncs with the Technical Director.
• Maintain living tech debt and risk registers with owners and roadmapped funding.
• Address hard cross cutting problems such as resource budgets, detection pipeline quality, and upgrade safety across a diverse fleet.
• Promote engineering standards in design reviews, testing strategy, observability, and secure SDLC.
• Mentor senior engineers and participate in hiring for senior roles.

What they're looking for

• 10+ years building and operating production software, with 3+ years in staff or principal level roles across multiple teams.
• Strong production experience in Python and in at least one of Go or Rust.
• Deep Linux internals knowledge including processes, filesystems, networking, kernel interfaces, packaging, and systemd.
• Track record designing and running distributed systems at scale with asynchronous backends, queues, databases, caching, and failure modes.
• Experience with on customer machines and upgrade safety, backward compatibility, and resource budgets.
• Security mindset with threat modeling and secure coding practices.

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing does not state a timezone requirement or Nigeria-specific eligibility; confirm before interviewing.
• The role is described as remote first; no explicit salary currency or range is stated in the listing.
• The listing does not specify visa or work authorization details.