Skyflow is hiring a
Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Software Engineer in Encryption Services at Skyflow, a data privacy vault company. The role involves designing secure solutions using various encryption methods, building large-scale distributed systems, and collaborating with a team of engineers. The desired qualifications include 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, knowledge of encryption algorithms, quantum-resilient computing, and post-quantum cryptography.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, building large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with homomorphic encryption, lattice cryptography, or other advanced encryption technologies (format-preserving encryption would be a plus)
• Knowledge of encryption algorithms, quantum-resilient computing, and post-quantum cryptography is desirable
• Good understanding of infrastructure and application-level security threat vectors and an ability to use a best-of-breed approach to design and implement solutions
• Experience delivering cloud-native distributed platforms at scale and with a meaningful adoption
• Solid experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Experience with a relational databases (e.g. SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Teradata, BigQuery, or similar)
• Experience with continuous integration, designing testable code, and test-driven development

Responsibilities

• Design and develop encryption APIs to support large-scale data and workflow security and privacy products
• Contribute to performance engineering efforts and ensure low-latency and high-throughput transactions at scale
• Participate in building and implementing effective test strategy including but not limited to safe code, automated testing, penetration testing, and ethical hacking
• Participate in the efforts of simplifying the world of cryptography, security, compliance, and privacy to non-technical internal and external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of modern privacy expectations and compliance will be a plus
• Experience with zero-knowledge proofs, and building zero-trust systems

Benefits

• $1,000 Work from home expense (U.S.A., Canada, and Australia)
• Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance Options (Varies by Country)
• Very Generous PTO
• Flexible Hours
• Generous Equity