Staff Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow18 hours ago
Base Salary
$150k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cryptographic services meeting FIPS and regulated-environment requirements.
- Architect and operate mission-critical crypto services with reliability and security as core design 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 reviews to platform features.
- Evaluate and apply AI/ML to security use cases such as anomaly detection, certificate risk scoring, and cryptographic code review.
- 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 cryptography readiness.
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 and Helm in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and TLS/PKI fundamentals.
- Demonstrated secure-coding practices, threat modeling, and code-review discipline.
- Preferred: direct experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle systems, HSM/KMS integration, or crypto-agility.
- Preferred: hands-on AI/ML experience applied to security or operations, or experience 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.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineers and raising security standards.
Benefits
- Base pay of $149,800 - $262,200, plus equity when applicable, variable/incentive compensation, and 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 in North America and Canada with a flexible work persona.
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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.