Backend Engineer: AI Security & Cloud

DigiCert; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability coverage

Gym reimbursement

Education assistance

LinkedIn Learning access

Employee referral program

Job summary

DigiCert is building the trust layer for the agentic future. As an Associate Software Engineer, you will contribute to security infrastructure that defines how AI agents are identified and controlled.

You will work with experienced engineers, cryptographers, and AI innovators to build secure, scalable systems for authenticated and authorized agent actions. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to gain hands-on experience in enterprise-grade security and AI infrastructure,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/SE/CE/Cybersecurity or related field.
• 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience (incl. internships, co-ops, research).
• Experience programming in Go, Rust, Java, Python, or C++.
• Foundational understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cryptographers, AI/ML experts, cloud infra engineers, and security engineers to shape secure digital interactions.
• Develop identity and authentication services for AI workloads.
• Help build and maintain secure, scalable cloud-native infrastructure and agent interactions.
• Contribute to governance and policy enforcement mechanisms for tool access and data usage.
• Design, test, and improve secure software across services with mentorship from senior engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable code, participate in reviews, testing, and best practices.
• Learn distributed systems and AI infrastructure with growth through mentorship.
• Collaborate across teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver new features.

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

Python

C++

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

DigiCert is building the trust layer for the agentic future. As an Associate Software Engineer, you will contribute to security infrastructure that defines how AI agents are identified and controlled.

You will work with experienced engineers, cryptographers, and AI innovators to build secure, scalable systems for authenticated and authorized agent actions. This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career engineer to gain hands-on experience in enterprise-grade security and AI infrastructure,