Remote Linux Cryptography & Security Engineer

Higlobe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Canonical is seeking a Security Hardening Engineer to advance cryptographic and kernel security for Ubuntu. You will extend Linux cryptographic components, work with DISA-CIS benchmarks, and drive automation for audits and remediation.

You will collaborate with Canonical’s kernel team and other engineers to ship secure, standards-aligned solutions while shaping security culture and delivery across the organization.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with low-level Linux cryptography APIs and debugging.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including prior experience with C development, and the ability to demonstrate such.
• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• Demonstrated knowledge of security and cryptography fundamentals + direct experience writing secure code and implementing best practices.
• Significant development experience working with open source libraries

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other engineers in the Security Hardening team to achieve and retain various Security certifications
• Extend and enhance Linux cryptographic components with features for FIPS and CC certification
• Collaborate with external security consultants to test and validate kernel and crypto module components
• Develop security hardening benchmarks and audit + remediation automation for Ubuntu
• Contribute to Ubuntu mainline and upstream projects to land solutions
• Communicate and collaborate with Canonical to improve security posture and deliver high-quality solutions

Skills

Low-level cryptography APIs

C development

Linux system administration

Shell scripting

Security fundamentals

Open source libraries

Tools

OpenSSL

Libgcrypt

GnuTLS

Job description

Canonical is seeking a Security Hardening Engineer to advance cryptographic and kernel security for Ubuntu. You will extend Linux cryptographic components, work with DISA-CIS benchmarks, and drive automation for audits and remediation.

You will collaborate with Canonical’s kernel team and other engineers to ship secure, standards-aligned solutions while shaping security culture and delivery across the organization.