Senior Python Engineer - Open Source Stewardship...

A client of Insight Global is looking for a Senior Software Engineer. In this role, you will work as part of a team responsible for establishing the technical

stewardship capabilities required by the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

You will focus on developing the tooling and infrastructure necessary to generate comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for critical open-source community

projects and integrating these manifests into Red Hat’s incident response workflows.

You will build automated solutions that bridge the gap between upstream project development and downstream security compliance, ensuring rapid detection of

vulnerabilities in open-source components. You will collaborate with internal security teams and external open-source communities to align on data standards and “secure by design” principles.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated tooling to generate and maintain Software Bill

of Materials (SBOMs) for upstream open-source projects in standardized

machine-readable formats (e.g., SPDX, CycloneDX).

• Integrate SBOM generation into community Continuous Integration (CI)

systems to ensure real-time tracking of top-level and transitive dependencies,

including the generation of unique component identifiers (CPE, PURL).

• Build “Early Warning” workflows by connecting community SBOMs with Red

Hat’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) tooling, enabling the

automatic mapping of new vulnerabilities (CVEs) to impacted upstream projects.

• Implement machine-readable advisory generation (CSAF VEX) for

community projects to support transparency and automated vulnerability

handling requirements.

• Continuously improve tooling to reduce the average time to patch critical

Advanced (5+ years) knowledge of Python programming language and their

ecosystems.

• 4+ years experience designing non-trivial algorithms and systems.

• 2+ years developing and testing applications using Python programming language and adjacent ecosystem.

• Deep understanding of Software Supply Chain Security concepts, including

SBOM standards (SPDX, CycloneDX) and vulnerability data formats (CSAF,

VEX, OSV).

• Intermediate (3+ years) experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)

for managing vulnerability and component metadata.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Tekton, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and

integrating security scanning tools into build processes.

• Interest in the container ecosystem (Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Podman).

• Good written and verbal communication skills in English, with a strong ability to

collaborate in open-source communities