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 beautiful UX to hide the complexity we’ve all come to associate with public key.
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. We’ve been waiting for this for years; be part of building it!
Interested? We’re hiring iOS engineers in both our NYC and SF offices. We’re looking for people with good experience on the iOS platform, and a good knowledge of crypto and security. Familiarity with Go is a plus. We hope you, like us, believe in our mission to bring the promise of public key to the masses.
To apply, please submit:
- 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; Nodejs and IcedCoffeeScript for Web development; FUSE for client file systems; MySQL/InnoDB, DynamoDB, S3 and EC2 for hosting.
Salary and compensation
$50,000 — $130,000/year
Equity
0.1 – 1.0
