DigiCert is building an AI Security & Trust Infrastructure team to deliver enterprise-grade trust and security capabilities at startup speed, requiring a hands-on leader to design and build distributed systems for AI models, agents, repositories, and connected devices.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience designing and developing distributed backend systems using Go, Python, or Rust.
- Proven ability to architect microservices-based, event-driven applications at scale.
- Deep understanding of streaming platforms (Kafka, NATS, or equivalent) and data layer design (Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, or similar).
- Strong grasp of DevOps fundamentals — Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and incident response.
- Experience building multi-tenant architectures with security, compliance, and reliability in mind.
- Familiarity with AI-accelerated development practices — improving team output with intelligent tooling and automation.
- Knowledge of security and trust systems (TLS, PKI, DANE, DNSSEC) is highly desirable.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor engineers to ship secure, production-grade features in fast, iterative releases.
- Architect and review distributed microservices, data flows, and event-driven pipelines that scale globally.
- Guide implementation of streaming and messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, or equivalent) and data layer design (SQL/NoSQL, caching, consistency patterns).
- Oversee and participate in development of CI/CD automation, IaC, and observability tooling.
- Define system SLOs, availability, and performance targets, ensuring high reliability and resilience.
- Establish and enforce AI-accelerated engineering practices that enhance velocity while maintaining clarity and security.
- Ensure the team practices end-to-end ownership — design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
Other
- 8+ years in software engineering with 2+ years leading distributed or SaaS engineering teams.
- Excellent systems thinking, technical judgment, and ability to balance velocity with operational excellence.
- Partner with product and enterprise stakeholders to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
- Foster a high-velocity, low-friction delivery culture through blameless postmortems, technical debt transparency, and measurable progress.
- DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce.
