Sr Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow7 hours ago
Base Salary
$129k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure cryptographic services for FIPS-compliant and regulated environments.
- Build and operate key management, certificate lifecycle, and secrets distribution services in a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
- Apply ML and statistical techniques to detect anomalous cryptographic usage and compromise indicators.
- Build near-real-time inference and detection pipelines.
- Translate security and compliance requirements into production code with product owners, security architects, and engineering teams.
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, including on-call and incident response.
- Threat-model designs, conduct rigorous code reviews, and identify cryptographic anti-patterns.
- Stay current with cryptographic advancements, including post-quantum readiness.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with Java, Go, or an equivalent object-oriented language at production scale.
- Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance and scalability considerations.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, resource isolation, concurrency, and shared-infrastructure scaling.
- Experience managing multiple projects with material technical risk across teams and processes.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, PKI, and TLS fundamentals.
- Demonstrated secure coding, code review, unit testing, and automation practices.
- Experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, or secrets management systems is preferred.
- Applied ML/AI experience in anomaly detection, classification, or engineering-tool integration is preferred.
- Experience building distributed backend systems with microservices and SQL or NoSQL data stores is preferred.
- Exposure to FIPS 140-2/3, FedRAMP, or similar regulated environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Health plans including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
- Flexible, remote, or required-in-office work personas may apply depending on the role and location.
- Regular employee position with a flexible work persona in North America and Canada.
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.