Sr Software Engineer, Platform Cryptography
ServiceNow7 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure cryptographic services that meet FIPS and regulated-environment requirements.
- Build and operate key management, certificate lifecycle, secrets distribution, and workload identity services for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
- Apply ML and statistical techniques to detect anomalous key usage, secrets access, and certificate request patterns.
- Build near-real-time inference and detection pipelines for cryptographic misuse and compromise indicators.
- Translate security and compliance requirements into production code with product owners, security architects, and engineering teams.
- Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, including CI/CD, on-call responsibilities, and incident response.
- Threat-model designs, conduct rigorous code reviews, and identify logic errors and cryptographic anti-patterns.
- Track cryptographic advancements, including post-quantum readiness, and apply relevant improvements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with Java, Go, or an equivalent object-oriented language at production scale.
- Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance and scalability considerations.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, resource isolation, concurrency, and scaling across shared infrastructure.
- Ability to manage multiple projects involving material technical risk across teams and processes.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes in a SaaS or multi-tenant environment.
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and PKI/TLS fundamentals.
- Experience with secure coding, code review, unit testing, and automation.
- Experience with cryptography, PKI, key management, or secrets management systems is an additional qualification.
- Applied ML/AI experience in anomaly detection, classification, or engineering workflow tooling is preferred.
- Experience building distributed backend systems with microservices and SQL or NoSQL data stores is preferred.
- Exposure to regulated environments such as FIPS 140-2/3 or FedRAMP is preferred.
Benefits
- Base pay of $143,200-$243,400, plus equity when applicable and variable or incentive compensation.
- Health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
- Flexible distributed-work personas, including flexible, remote, or required-in-office arrangements depending on role and location.
- Regular employee position in the AMS - North America and Canada region.
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.