What are the responsibilities and job description for the Front End Security Software Engineer position at DigiCert and Careers?
Who we are
We're a leading, global security authority that's disrupting our own category. Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands, the world's largest companies, the major cloud providers, entire country financial systems, entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers. We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. That's digital trust for the real world.
Job summary
You'll design and implement the security and trust enforcement mechanisms that protect identities, data, and AI workloads. You'll work across systems to ensure strong validation, isolation, and observability in every release.
What you will do
- Develop policy enforcement and identity validation engines.
- Integrate cryptographic and trust-based protocols into distributed service layers.
- Automate security checks within CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with backend and infrastructure teams to enforce secure defaults.
- Build telemetry and analytics for security events and trust enforcement.
- Continuously evolve protections against AI-specific abuse patterns (exfiltration, spoofing, prompt injection).
What you will have
- 5 years of experience in application or systems security engineering.
- Strong coding background in Python, Go, or Rust.
- Understanding of cryptography, authentication, and authorization frameworks.
- Experience with policy-as-code, runtime security, or sandboxing.
- Familiarity with PKI, TLS, DNSSEC, or DANE is desirable.
- Experience embedding security automation and observability into distributed services.
- Strong collaboration and documentation habits.
Benefits
DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all of our full-time employees.
DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran's status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified person with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
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