What You'll Do
- Lead the team in building and operating secure and resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management, running across our network that spans more than 310 cities in over 120 countries.
- Strengthen/re-architect internal PKI and machine/workload identity.
- Run and support the systems we build, both in an operational sense and by helping other internal developers use them.
- Organize and plan the team's long-term roadmap and day-to-day work.
- Review and sign off on technical designs, project plans, and code; providing guidance to ensure quality, resilience, and security.
- Participate in design and implementation, personally leading projects as needed.
- Support the growth and career development of your team, delegating tasks as appropriate.
- Handle people management responsibilities (performance management, compensation planning, etc).
Desirable Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Team leadership/management; level and years of experience are flexible.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Software development and distributed systems design expertise.
- Strong security background with a focus on implementation, not policy/compliance.
Bonus Points
- Track record of contributing to open source security or distributed systems projects.
- Cryptography background and ability to work with cryptosystems at the primitives level.
- Experience with HSMs, TPMs, or other platform TEEs (e.g. AMD SEV, Intel SGX, Apple Secure Enclave).
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, or similar.
- Linux/UNIX system administration proficiency.
- Familiarity with Go and/or Python + Salt specifically.
Compensation
For New York City, Washington D.C., and Seattle based hires: Estimated annual salary of 190,000 - 237,000 USD.
For Colorado based hires: Estimated annual salary of 170,000 - 212,000 USD.
