Staff Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow21 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cryptographic services that meet FIPS compliance and regulated-environment requirements.
- Architect and operate mission-critical crypto services with reliability and security as core design constraints.
- Own services end to end on Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, on-call coverage, and incident response.
- Apply threat modeling, secure coding, and rigorous design and code review practices.
- Evaluate appropriate AI/ML applications for cryptographic and security use cases, including anomaly detection and certificate risk scoring.
- Translate compliance and security requirements into working cryptographic frameworks with product, security, and platform teams.
- Mentor engineers on secure coding, cryptographic pitfalls, and design review rigor.
- Track cryptographic advancements, including post-quantum readiness, and incorporate them proactively.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Production-scale experience with Java, Go, or a comparable strongly typed language.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and distributed-systems tradeoffs.
- Production experience running services on Kubernetes in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment, including deployments, Helm, and CI/CD.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, TLS, and PKI fundamentals.
- Demonstrated secure coding, threat modeling, and code review discipline.
- Preferred: experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle systems, HSM/KMS integration, or crypto-agility.
- Preferred: hands-on AI/ML exposure and experience applying ML to security or operations problems or integrating LLM tooling into engineering workflows.
- Preferred: experience with regulated environments such as FIPS 140-2/3, FedRAMP, or Common Criteria.
- Preferred: exposure to post-quantum cryptography and a record of mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Base pay is $166,500-$291,400, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
- Benefits include health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan, and family leave programs.
- The role has a flexible work persona in the North America and Canada region.
- This is a regular employee position.
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About ServiceNow
ServiceNow builds a cloud platform for enterprise digital workflows, covering IT service management, customer service, HR service delivery, security operations, and operations management, plus tools for custom app development. It sells subscription SaaS to large organizations and public-sector agencies to automate processes and connect data across systems. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow is a public company listed on the NYSE under the ticker NOW.