Staff Software Engineer
Summary
Staff Software Engineer at Cipher building a cryptographic governance platform that helps federal and commercial customers discover and fix cryptographic vulnerabilities ahead of post-quantum deadlines. Full-stack work: Go/Python back-end services, React/TypeScript dashboards, and CI/CD on AWS/Kubernetes.
Compensation: $100k – $145k • 1.0% – 2.0%
Company: Cipher (https://cipher-inc.com/)
Industry: Cybersecurity technology
Role: Staff Software Engineer
Location: United States (Remote)
Eligibility: U.S. citizenship required
About the Role
Cipher is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to help design and build our cryptographic governance platform. You'll work directly with our Head of Engineering across our core platform and sensor microservices, helping federal and commercial customers find and fix cryptographic vulnerabilities ahead of NIST's post-quantum deadlines. This is an early, high-ownership role: you'll shape architecture, set engineering standards, and see your work land in production environments at regulated enterprises and defense organizations.
What You’ll Build
Back-end services and APIs for:
- Cryptographic object discovery – keys, certificates, algorithms, and protocols across networks, endpoints, and codebases
- Cryptographic inventorying – data normalization, de-duplication, and association into a unified inventory
- Vulnerability assessment & prioritization – flagging legacy/deprecated algorithms and building frameworks that help customers prioritize remediation
Front-end components for:
- Data visualization – dashboard widgets summarizing findings across cryptographic inventories
- Inventory exploration – searchable, filterable views for drilling into discovered cryptographic objects and their relationships
- Reporting – exportable views that track remediation progress and post-quantum readiness for auditors and leadership
CI/CD pipelines to:
- Automate testing across services
- Secure end-to-end deployment workflows
Required Experience
- 5+ years building production software services
- Strong proficiency in Golang and Python; comfortable in TypeScript and Bash
- DevOps experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Database experience with PostgreSQL; familiarity with MongoDB and Redis
- Familiarity with React and Node, and with both Linux and Windows environments
Who You Are
- A clear communicator who can explain technical decisions to teammates and customers
- Willing to push back and contribute on critical decisions
- High integrity and a strong sense of ownership
- Motivated to build a market-leading product from an early stage
Preferred Additional Experience
- GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Observability and security engineering
- AI development and integration (including MCP)
- ServiceNow API
- PKI, TLS, and digital certificates
- macOS
- Additional DevOps depth
About Cipher
We're a funded, revenue-generating, pre-seed-stage team of innovators and experienced engineers giving regulated enterprises and government agencies the tooling to set and enforce cryptographic governance. Our platform helps security teams manage identities, protect sensitive information, reduce downtime, and track post-quantum readiness. Cipher is offering competitive compensation and meaningful equity to fill this position. https://www.linkedin.com/company/cipher-technologies-inc.