Bangalore, Karnataka, India

DigiCert is hiring a Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Develop distributed systems that manage identity and access controls for AI agents operating autonomously.
  • Formulate zero trust frameworks governing interactions between agents and between agents and backend systems.
  • Design cryptographic identity solutions, verifiable credentials, and secure delegation mechanisms.
  • Build and deploy production-ready, multi-tenant SaaS platforms with high availability.
  • Develop containerized microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring, scaling, and fault tolerance.
  • Implement secure communication protocols between services using cloud-native security standards.
  • Architect complex workflows involving multiple AI agents to evaluate identity and governance limits.
  • Construct adversarial testing environments to simulate attacks like prompt injection and privilege escalation.
  • Ensure system resilience against realistic enterprise-level security threats.
  • Develop APIs and SDKs that integrate secure identity functions into AI-driven applications.
  • Maintain clean, modular abstractions for smooth integration with enterprise infrastructure.
  • Design secure interaction models between agents and external systems via MCP or custom tooling.
  • Guarantee all tool executions are authenticated, authorized, and fully traceable.
  • Define and enforce policies for tool usage and resource access.
  • Lead technical vision and long-term architectural planning for identity systems.
  • Set engineering benchmarks for security, system reliability, and performance efficiency.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams to ensure scalable implementation.
  • Guide and mentor engineering teams to elevate technical capabilities across the organization.

Benefits

  • Generous time off policies
  • Top shelf benefits
  • Education, wellness and lifestyle support
Required Skills
KubernetesAWSMicrosoft AzureGCPMicroservicesDistributed Systems
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DigiCert
A global provider of high-assurance security solutions including TLS/SSL, PKI, IoT, and digital signing technologies.
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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 5 months ago