Front End Security Software Engineer

DigiCert • Lehi, UT

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About The Position

You’ll design and implement the security and trust enforcement mechanisms that protect identities, data, and AI workloads. You’ll work across systems to ensure strong validation, isolation, and observability in every release.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in application or systems security engineering
• Strong coding background in Python, Go, or Rust
• Understanding of cryptography, authentication, and authorization frameworks.
• Experience with policy-as-code , runtime security, or sandboxing.
• Experience embedding security automation and observability into distributed services.
• Strong collaboration and documentation habits.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with PKI, TLS, DNSSEC, or DANE is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop policy enforcement and identity validation engines.
• Integrate cryptographic and trust-based protocols into distributed service layers.
• Automate security checks within CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with backend and infrastructure teams to enforce secure defaults.
• Build telemetry and analytics for security events and trust enforcement.
• Continuously evolve protections against AI-specific abuse patterns (exfiltration, spoofing, prompt injection).

Benefits

• DigiCert offers a competitive benefits package for all of our full-time employees.
• DigiCert is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, DigiCert prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran’s status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information.
• Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified person with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees