Staff Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow20 hours ago
Base Salary
$167k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cryptographic services that meet FIPS and regulated-environment requirements.
- Architect and operate mission-critical cryptographic services with reliability and security as first-class constraints.
- Own service deployment, scaling, on-call support, and incident response on Kubernetes in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
- Apply threat modeling, secure coding, and rigorous design review practices.
- Evaluate practical AI/ML applications for cryptographic and security problems, including anomaly detection, certificate risk scoring, telemetry analysis, and cryptographic code review.
- Translate compliance and security requirements into working cryptographic frameworks with product, security architecture, and platform teams.
- Mentor engineers on secure coding, cryptographic pitfalls, and design review rigor.
- Track cryptographic advances, including post-quantum readiness, and apply 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 Kubernetes services with deployments, Helm, and CI/CD in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, TLS, and PKI fundamentals.
- Experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle systems, HSM/KMS integration, or crypto-agility work is preferred.
- Hands-on AI/ML exposure applied to security or operations problems, or experience integrating LLM tooling into engineering workflows, is preferred.
- Experience with regulated environments such as FIPS 140-2/3, FedRAMP, or Common Criteria is preferred.
- Exposure to post-quantum cryptography is preferred.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising security standards is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at $166,500-$291,400, plus equity where applicable and variable or incentive compensation.
- Benefits include health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
- The role uses a flexible work persona within ServiceNow’s distributed work model.
- This is a regular employee position 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.