Black Duck
Senior C++ Developer
Black DuckCanada11 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering

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.


Software Products can have defects. We help customers identify them and eliminate their impact so they can focus on their primary job! Our products involve highly sophisticated, cutting-edge software algorithms to detect critical defects and security vulnerabilities in source code. We are looking for an intermediate developer to join us on our mission of helping people to find and fix as many bugs and security vulnerabilities as possible in their software.


Senior C++ Developer


The Coverity Analysis Team is looking for someone with excellent C/C++ skills and applied computer science experience. The job involves evolving Coverity's state of the art analysis infrastructure and generally pushing the envelope of static analysis. In particular, the job will include enhancing the Coverity analysis product by writing new checkers and improving the analysis engine. The perfect candidate will have a strong passion for improving software quality and security, enthusiasm about programming languages and compilers, -- but foremost a strong desire to learn.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop new checkers to find bugs and security vulnerabilities.
  • Make improvements to general analysis infrastructure.
  • Develop new code analysis algorithms and techniques.


Key Qualifications:

  • Experience in C/C++ development (10+ years)
  • Expert-level proficiency in C++ (C++11/14/17/20) with deep understanding of object-oriented programming, templates, STL, and memory management
  • Strong experience with multithreading, concurrency, and synchronization primitives
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent
  • Experience with development on UNIX
  • Experience with data structures and algorithmic design and analysis


Preferred Experience

  • Interest or experience in analyzing programming languages, building compilers, parsers, or other language analyzers.
  • Interest or experience in dataflow and program analysis.
  • Interest or experience working on programming language committee.
  • Experience with C++20 features and modern idioms.
  • Familiarity with Rust, Python, or other systems languages.


Pay Range: $130,000 CAD - $152,000 CAD


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.

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