Senior Staff Software Engineer - Identity Security (Remote)

Entrust Corporation; Minnesota; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Entrust is seeking a Staff Software Developer to provide cross-team technical leadership for the Agentic Trust solution. You will own complex, high-impact work spanning services and platform planes, ensuring coherence with architecture and long‑term strategy.

Remain hands-on while elevating quality and judgment across R&D. You will lead architecture reviews, prototype high‑risk approaches, and mentor engineers to strengthen decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a 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.

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 Developering 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 Developering 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

Distributed systems

Cloud-native design

API contracts

Data integrity

Production operations

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Job description

Entrust is seeking a Staff Software Developer to provide cross-team technical leadership for the Agentic Trust solution. You will own complex, high-impact work spanning services and platform planes, ensuring coherence with architecture and long‑term strategy.

Remain hands-on while elevating quality and judgment across R&D. You will lead architecture reviews, prototype high‑risk approaches, and mentor engineers to strengthen decision-making.