Software Engineer 4 (C#,. Net core, Runtime Profiling, CLR Internals)

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p></div><p> </p> <div class="ewa-rteLine"><strong>About the Role:</strong></div> <div class="ewa-rteLine">We are looking for a Hands-on Software Engineer 4 to work on our Seeker Inline Agent for .NET — a dynamic application security testing (DAST) agent that instruments .NET applications at runtime to detect security vulnerabilities. You will work across C#, C++, and multiple .NET runtime versions to build and maintain profiler-based instrumentation, security checkers, and platform integrations.</div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> </div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> <p><strong>Experience :</strong> 9+ Years</p> <p><strong>Job location :</strong> Black Duck, Bangalore (Prestige Blue Chip, Near Dairy Circle, Opp to Christ University)</p> <p><strong>Work Mode :</strong> Hybrid (3 days WFO)</p> </div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> </div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> <ul> <li>Design, develop, and maintain the <strong>.NET agent core, including security checkers</strong> (SQLi, XSS, CSRF, deserialization, etc.) and taint analysis engine</li> <li><strong>Develop and optimize native C++ profilers</strong> <strong>using the CLR Profiling API for both .NET Framework and .NET Core/.NET 5+</strong></li> <li>Support multi-platform builds targeting Windows (x64), Linux (x64, ARM64), and Alpine/musl environments</li> <li><strong>Extend agent capabilities to new .NET versions (.NET 8, 9, 10+) </strong>and hosting models (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, gRPC, OWIN, WCF)</li> <li>Collaborate on <strong>CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) across multiple OS targets and Docker-based build environments</strong></li> <li>Write and maintain unit tests (NUnit) and integration tests across framework versions</li> <li>Troubleshoot low-level runtime issues involving IL rewriting, method interception, and memory management</li> <li>Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and contribute to build system improvements (Cake Build, CMake, MSBuild)</li> </ul> </div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> </div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"><strong>Required Skills:</strong></div> <div class="ewa-rteLine"> <ul> <li>9+ years of professional software development experience</li> <li><strong>Strong C# proficiency</strong> across <strong>.NET Framework (3.5–4.8.1)</strong> and .<strong>NET Core/.NET 5+ (up to .NET 10)</strong></li> <li><strong>C++ experience</strong> — working with native interop, COM, and platform APIs (<strong>CLR Profiling </strong>API is a strong plus)</li> <li>Deep understanding of the <strong>.NET CLR internals </strong>— assembly loading, JIT compilation, IL metadata, type system</li> <li>Experience with