Staff Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow18 days ago
Base Salary
$167k - $291k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable cryptographic services meeting FIPS and regulated-environment requirements.
- Architect and operate mission-critical services for certificate lifecycle, key management, secrets distribution, PKI, and workload identity.
- Own services end-to-end on Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, on-call support, and incident response.
- Apply threat modeling, secure coding, and rigorous code review practices to security-sensitive features.
- Evaluate and apply AI/ML to cryptographic and security use cases such as anomaly detection, risk scoring, telemetry analysis, and 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 cryptography, and improve platform 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 services on Kubernetes in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment, including deployments and Helm.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, TLS, and PKI fundamentals.
- Demonstrated secure coding, threat modeling, and code review practices.
- Preferred: direct experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle systems, HSM/KMS integration, or crypto-agility.
- Preferred: hands-on application of AI/ML to security or operations problems 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 and experience mentoring engineers.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed at $166,500-$291,400, plus potential equity, 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 is a regular employee position with a flexible work persona in North America and Canada.
- Employment is subject to any required export-control license or approval.
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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.