Senior Software Engineer - Python Developer

**Black Lantern Security is a Services Oriented Company** --------------------------------------------------------- * Black Lantern Security is built around the ingenuity, passion, and determination of our Operators and Analysts * No one "mastermind" * No "cult of personality" * Competitive compensation and benefits * Healthy work\-life balance * Project\-based engagements that play to the team's strengths Senior Software Engineer \- Python Developer ### **Location: Remote** ##### **Required:** * 7\+ years professional Python with substantive async/await experience (asyncio, httpx, websockets, aiohttp or equivalent). * 3\+ years of RUST development experience in a production environment. * Demonstrable open\-source maintenance experience \- a visible GitHub history showing pull\-request review, release management, and community interaction on a non\-trivial project. * Hands\-on experience with at least two of the following security domains: DNS enumeration, subdomain discovery, web reconnaissance, cloud infrastructure enumeration (AWS / Azure / GCP asset discovery), port scanning, certificate\-transparency monitoring, or active OSINT tooling. * Comfort with multiprocess and event\-driven architectures \- cross\-process coordination, graceful shutdown, backpressure handling. * Python packaging and distribution \- Poetry, uv, PyPI publishing, lockfile hygiene. * Linux, Docker, GitHub Actions \- CI/CD fluency. * Experience with AGPL / GPL\-licensed code in a commercial context; what the license does and does not require. * Excellent written communication \- drafting release notes, technical proposals, and respond to community issues in public. ##### **Perferred background:** * Ansible / ansible\-runner \- ansible to orchestrate external scanner tools; fluency shortens onboarding. * YARA rules \- integrates yara\-python for finding\-pattern matching. * Model Context Protocol (MCP) familiarity \- MCP surface for LLM\-agent integration. * Helm charts / Kubernetes familiarity. * Previous experience with other security tooling (e.g., Nuclei, recon\-ng).