Software Engineer, Systems
Keycard Labs3 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build core systems and infrastructure including identity services, enforcement paths, developer platforms, and automation.
- Develop Kubernetes operators and CI/CD automation while contributing to core product services.
- Design systems that provide deterministic guarantees for delivery, consistency, and availability at global scale.
- Improve platform security, resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and developer productivity.
- Collaborate directly with founders, product, design, SDK, and core services teams.
- Help shape Keycard’s internal adoption of coding agents and agent-native engineering practices.
Requirements
- Strong programming experience with Go and/or Rust and a builder-first approach.
- Experience building developer-facing platforms such as Kubernetes operators, CI/CD abstractions, or internal tooling, as well as core services.
- Expertise in distributed systems, including consensus, coordination, and state management.
- Ability to build secure, resilient, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability.
- Experience creating automation, pipelines, and developer platforms that make reliable software delivery the default.
- Ability to make trade-offs in 0-to-1 environments, lead by example, communicate clearly, and help teammates grow.
- Preferred experience with OIDC, OAuth, mTLS, MCP, A2A, edge computing, intelligent routing, globally distributed systems, eBPF, service meshes, custom Kubernetes operators, WASM, dynamic policy engines, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Benefits
- Market-competitive salary and generous equity package with a 4-year vest and 1-year cliff.
- Health, dental, vision, and paramedical coverage for the employee and family.
- Four weeks of vacation, 11 statutory holidays, and one volunteer day annually.
- New MacBook Pro, $500 peripherals stipend, and access to AI tools.
- Remote-first work with asynchronous collaboration and hiring focused in North and South America.
About Keycard Labs
Keycard is on a mission to redefine machine identity for the Internet—helping developers seamlessly connect people, agents, and services across networks, clouds, and applications. As AI-driven workflows grow more complex, Keycard’s dynamic, identity-based credentials ensure every agent and service operates with precise, contextual permissions. We’re building a global identity network backed by open protocols—empowering distributed systems to adapt, scale, and maintain cryptographically verifiable trust. By rethinking secret management from first principles, we aim to delight developers, meet the performance needs of platform engineers, and set a new standard for cloud-era security in an inclusive, collaborative environment.