Sr Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow20 hours ago
Base Salary
$129k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure cryptographic services that meet FIPS and regulated-environment requirements.
- Build and operate key management, certificate lifecycle, and secrets distribution services for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
- Apply ML and statistical techniques to detect anomalous key usage, secrets access, and certificate request patterns.
- Build near-real-time inference and detection pipelines for cryptographic misuse and compromise indicators.
- Translate security and compliance requirements into production software with product owners, security architects, and engineering teams.
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, including deployment, CI/CD, on-call support, and incident response.
- Perform threat modeling, secure code reviews, unit testing, and automation while identifying cryptographic anti-patterns.
- Track 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 scaling across shared infrastructure.
- Ability to manage 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 exposure in anomaly detection, classification, or engineering workflows 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
- Base pay is listed at $128,900-$219,100, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
- Health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs are offered.
- The role uses a flexible work persona within ServiceNow’s distributed work model.
- The position is a regular employee role in the AMS - North America and Canada region.
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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.