Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity Security

Entrust; Minnesota; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Growth

Flexibility

Collaboration

Job summary

Entrust is seeking a Staff Software Developer to provide cross‑team technical leadership for the Agentic Trust solution. The role owns complex, ambiguous areas spanning services and build tracks, ensuring designs align with the four‑plane platform strategy.

Hands‑on while raising quality and technical judgment across R&D, you will shape designs, prototype high‑risk capabilities, and create reusable patterns that accelerate delivery across multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience building and operating complex distributed or security-sensitive systems.
• Expertise in one or more modern programming languages, cloud-native system design, API contracts, data integrity, and production operations.
• Proven ability to lead large technical initiatives across organizational boundaries without relying on positional authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex tradeoffs and create durable technical documentation.
• Deep experience in identity, Key Management, PKI, cryptography, authorization, HSM-backed services, workload identity, transparency logs, or verifiable systems.
• Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms and services with demanding latency, availability, and data-protection requirements.
• Knowledge of agentic AI ecosystems, MCP, agent-to-agent interactions, AI governance, or provenance standards such as C2PA.
• Open-source, patent, standards-body, or recognized technical community contributions.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and successful delivery of broad initiatives spanning multiple teams, services, or platform planes.
• Partner with the Platform Architect and Software Development leaders to evolve reference designs, interfaces, dependency contracts, and Software Development standards.
• Design and implement critical platform capabilities involving identity, delegated authority, policy enforcement, trustworthy execution, evidence, or assurance.
• Prototype uncertain or high-risk approaches and convert findings into scalable production designs.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; surface systemic security, reliability, interoperability, and scalability risks.
• Create reusable frameworks, libraries, reference implementations, and Software Development guidance that improve consistency across teams.
• Diagnose complex production and performance issues and lead cross-team remediation.
• Mentor Software Developers and strengthen technical decision making through coaching, design feedback, and technical forums.
• Represent R&D in strategic customer, partner, or standards discussions when deep technical expertise is required.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

APIs & contracts

Technical communication

Tools

Security architecture

Job description

Entrust is seeking a Staff Software Developer to provide cross‑team technical leadership for the Agentic Trust solution. The role owns complex, ambiguous areas spanning services and build tracks, ensuring designs align with the four‑plane platform strategy.

Hands‑on while raising quality and technical judgment across R&D, you will shape designs, prototype high‑risk capabilities, and create reusable patterns that accelerate delivery across multiple teams.