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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 build the core APIs and microservices that power DigiCert’s AI Security & Trust Infrastructure — distributed systems that handle trust signals, identity validation, and real-time event processing.
What you will do
- Design and develop event-driven microservices and API-driven workflows.
- Implement scalable, observable, and secure backend services.
- Contribute to data modeling, caching, and performance optimization.
- Integrate distributed components with identity and trust layers.
- Partner with infrastructure and security engineers to ensure deployability and resilience.
- Use modern AI-assisted development workflows to maintain velocity and clarity.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and incident postmortems.
What you will have
- 4+ years of experience building cloud-native backend systems.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.
- Experience designing distributed microservices with REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Familiarity with streaming or messaging systems (Kafka, NATS, or Pub/Sub).
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation.
- Knowledge of TLS, PKI, DNSSEC, or DANE is desirable.
- Excellent debugging, performance tuning, and systems-thinking skills.
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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