Senior Cryptography Engineer
SuccinctFull Time
Senior (5 to 8 years)
Candidates must have extensive experience as a software engineer working on global-scale production systems and be experienced in deploying cryptographic systems at scale with a strong understanding of production cryptographic key management. Familiarity with security primitives such as TPM2, Secure Boot, secure enclaves, and confidential computing platforms is required, along with professional experience programming in Python and proficiency in Rust and/or C/C++. The ideal candidate will own problems end-to-end, be willing to acquire missing knowledge, have experience architecting, observing, and debugging production distributed systems, exhibit a humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a commitment to the team's success. Self-direction and experience rebuilding or significantly refactoring production systems to accommodate rapidly increasing scale are also important, as is a good intuition for when off-the-shelf solutions will work and the ability to quickly build tools to accelerate workflows when they won't.
The Software Engineer will write high-quality, performance-critical code in Rust and Python, working alongside researchers, engineers, and security experts to integrate and scale advanced cryptographic techniques into production and research systems. Responsibilities include writing foundational libraries to support cryptographic operations, ensuring security best practices are embedded into infrastructure, and designing, implementing, and maintaining secure key management systems for production environments. The engineer will also design and deploy systems to trust infrastructure using security primitives and technologies like tpm2, Secure Boot, Nitro Enclaves, confidential computing, Intel SGX, and AMD-SEV. Additionally, they will research, design, and implement operating system-level security measures such as remote attestation, runtime TPM measurement, and host integrity verification.
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