Software Engineer II - Key Management Systems
DigitalOcean2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Implement features and bug fixes across DigitalOcean’s key management services in Go.
- Contribute to key generation, rotation, revocation, and key lifecycle workflows.
- Implement and test data encryption key wrapping and unwrapping using key encryption key hierarchies.
- Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and maintain high standards for security-sensitive code.
- Participate in on-call rotations, investigate production issues, write runbooks, and operate contributed services.
- Develop expertise in HSM integration, cryptographic protocol design, and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with IAM, Storage, and Database teams on the broader platform security model.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of software engineering experience building and shipping production services.
- Proficiency in Go or strong experience with another typed systems language and the ability to ramp quickly.
- Understanding of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, key derivation, and hashing.
- Understanding of distributed systems, including replication, latency trade-offs, and failure modes.
- Exposure to Kubernetes and SQL databases such as Postgres and MySQL.
- Ability to investigate production issues, document work clearly, and collaborate effectively.
- Familiarity with HSMs or cloud KMS services such as AWS KMS, GCP Cloud KMS, or HashiCorp Vault is preferred.
- Exposure to FIPS 140-2, AES-GCM, RSA, ECDSA, or cryptographic standards is preferred.
- Experience with Terraform, security-sensitive systems, compliance-adjacent systems, or gRPC microservices architecture is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Bengaluru, India.
- Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning courses.
- Employee Assistance Program, local employee meetups, and flexible time off.
- Bonus eligibility, equity compensation, and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- Equal-opportunity employer.
Tech Stack
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the AI-Native Cloud purpose-built for the inference and agentic era. Its five-layer integrated platform—spanning GPU and CPU infrastructure, core cloud, inference, data, and managed agent orchestration—is open throughout with no vendor lock-in, giving builders everything they need to start fast, scale production AI workloads, and improve unit economics. More than 650,000 customers and millions of developers globally trust DigitalOcean to build, ship, and scale their applications.