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The Lead Principal Software Engineer - Secrets Management joins the software engineering division as an individual contributor to design and build secure backend services. This role focuses on developing systems to store, manage, rotate, and deliver secrets, keys, certificates, and other sensitive materials. You will build reliable APIs, tooling, and workflows to automate secret rotation and improve key exchange mechanisms for secure communication. Key responsibilities include leading threat modeling, security reviews, and design hardening for security-critical production systems. You must demonstrate expertise in distributed backend services, encryption, identity, and certificate lifecycles. The work involves solving complex problems regarding sensitive-data exposure, operational safety, and scalability across service boundaries while partnering with infrastructure and security teams to ensure consistent secret management across the entire organization.
Design and build secure backend services to store, manage, rotate, and deliver secrets and keys.
Improve key exchange mechanisms to secure software communications and protect data in transit and at rest.
Automate secret rotation processes to reduce manual handling and prevent unsafe credential storage patterns.
Build reliable APIs, tooling, and workflows to help engineering teams adopt key-management capabilities.
Improve availability, scalability, monitoring, and operational safety for security-critical production systems.
Lead threat modeling, security reviews, and sensitive-data exposure analysis across service boundaries.
Own production quality through incident response, debugging, and resiliency work to reduce manual operations.
What we're looking for
Must have 10+ years of experience.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Must have deep experience designing and operating distributed backend services in production at meaningful scale.
Must have strong security engineering judgment across access control, encryption, identity, trust boundaries, key management, and certificate lifecycles.
Must have experience building reliable APIs, automation, and developer-facing infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
Must have operational excellence in observability, incident response, reliability engineering, scalability, and safe production change management.
Must have practical experience with threat modeling, security reviews, hardening, and production risk reduction for sensitive-data systems.
Must have the ability to lead ambiguous technical programs, make durable architecture decisions, and mentor engineers.
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