Keybase is hiring
Keybase is a small, well-funded company of idealists who love what we're building. Our team and investors come from a variety of early roles at OkCupid, Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, and more. We enjoy:
- bringing privacy & security to the masses
- making apps & interfaces
- ping pong & peanut M&M's & team outings.
Join us!
Visual designer
Keybase has a lot of fun stuff to build, and we're expanding onto so many platforms: apps on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a website, too.
And we are building important software.
As Visual Designer, you'll be working alongside our Lead Product Designer, Cécile, in the San Francisco office. Together, you'll make Keybase look better, work better, and be more popular, too.
Location
This job is a full-time position in San Francisco.
Qualifications
- 2+ years visual design experience
To Apply
Please send an email to chris@keybase.io. Include:
- a brief note introducing yourself
- a portfolio / website link.
DevOps Engineer
Keybase is hiring a DevOps engineer to oversee our operations and build modern automation tools. As our first DevOps engineer, you will be in charge of scaling our current web server infrastructure and building out the server side of our new end-to-end encrypted file system. We plan to run these systems on AWS using modern containerized best-practices.
A key principle at Keybase is that everyone should have access to the best crypto in the world without having to manage infrastructure. You will be in charge of configuring, maintaining and optimizing that infrastructure for them! Since all data on Keybase is protected by end-to-end encryption, you can focus on building the best system possible rather than fortifying its perimeter.
In particular, you'll:
- Automate AWS to provision, scale, and monitor our production systems
- Tune the system to optimize performance and effective use of resources
- Handle server security
- Review and inform the engineers' architectural decisions
- Maintain our continuous integration system
We require these skills:
- In-depth knowledge of and experience with AWS and Docker
- Deep experience and expertise orchestrating large-scale distributed systems
- A deep understanding of networks, network debugging, and network performance optimization
- A deep understanding of operating systems, OS-level debugging, and OS-level performance optimization
- Proficiency in at least one, and hopefully more, scripting languages including Python, Ruby, Bash and JavaScript
- Some familiarity with Go
- Love of cryptography and practical security
You'll be working with a small, smart and passionate team. We want to bring public key cryptography to the masses, and you'll be leading the charge.
To apply, please submit to max@keybase.io :
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- if you have it, a GitHub profile or links to open source projects you've worked on
- a short snippet of code that you're particularly proud of, and a description of what it's doing; if you don't have that, then do the same for someone else's code
- a short note introducing yourself
Software Engineer
Keybase is working hard to bring all the promise of public key cryptography to regular people. We're solving three challenging problems in parallel, building out: (1) an open and auditable PKI based on social network identities; (2) support for all mobile and desktop platforms, so that every device can have its own private key; and (3) viral sharing applications that use clean UX to hide the complexity we've all come to associate with public keys.
We want to change the way security works at a deep level, so that sharing, end-to-end security, and cloud hosting can peacefully coexist. And we won't be happy with isolated enterprise installs, or appeal to just hardcore tin-foil hats. We're aiming for widespread adoption: first among programmers, and eventually among consumers at large.
Interested? We're hiring generalist software engineers in our NYC, Chicago, and SF offices. We need folks with good experience in some non-trivial, likely proper subset of: distributed systems, file systems, security, cryptography, mobile and Web development, databases, storage, and UX. We hope you, like us, believe in our mission to bring the promise of public keys to the masses.
To apply, please submit to max@keybase.io :
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- if you have it, a GitHub profile or links to open source projects you've worked on
- a short snippet of code that you're particularly proud of, and a description of what it's doing; if you don't have that, then do the same for someone else's code
- a short note introducing yourself
Experience in the technologies we use is helpful but not required. They are: Go for core infrastructure; ObjC, Java and C# for native UI development on iOS, OSX, Android and Windows; Node.js and IcedCoffeeScript for Web development; FUSE for client file systems; MySQL/InnoDB, DynamoDB, S3 and EC2 for hosting.
Windows Build/Install/QA Engineer
Keybase is committed to delivering a high quality cross-platform product on mobile and desktop platforms. Recognizing that there is no bigger desktop platform than Windows, we're hiring a Quality Assurance and build release expert. We need folks with good experience in some or all of: QA and QA automation, build/release engineering, Windows and Windows installers. This is your chance to apply your Windows expertise to a cross platform, open source Go codebase. We hope you, like us, believe in our mission to bring the promise of public keys to the masses.
To apply, please submit to max@keybase.io :
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- if you have it, a GitHub profile or links to open source projects you've worked on
- a short note introducing yourself
Experience in the technologies we use is helpful but not required. They are: Go, Electron frontend, WIX, Jenkins, S3, and Git.
