Cryptography Engineer

Devtech

Security Engineer focusing on cryptographic analysis and remediation engineering at Devtech. Assist teams with encryption migration and ensure system security standards in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Cryptography Analysis & Validation: Review, annotate, and validate cryptographic findings produced by static code analysis, automated tooling, and LLM/agentic systems.
Remediation Engineering: Evaluate AI‑generated remediation outputs and experiment results, ensuring they meet cryptographic and systems‑security quality standards.
Systems & Migration Support: Assist engineering teams with encryption migration tasks involving databases, filesystems, networks, or multi‑system upgrades.
Customer-Facing & Cross‑Team Collaboration: Meet with customer engineering teams and technical leaders to assess cryptographic posture using Threat Point and related tools.
Code & System Evaluation: Analyze complex, multi‑language codebases to understand cryptographic usage patterns, build processes, and test suites.
Documentation & Continuous Improvement: Document findings, insights, assumptions, and edge cases with high clarity and precision.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong academic and applied knowledge of classical cryptography
Background implementing cryptographic mechanisms (symmetric, asymmetric, hashing, KDF, MAC, encryption modes, transport layers)
Solid programming experience - able to deeply read, analyze, and critique multi-language codebases (compiled and interpreted)
Experience reviewing and validating cryptographic findings or remediation outputs
Experience with complex data migrations involving multiple systems
Understanding of database and file or filesystem re-encryption
Exceptional attention to detail and passion for correctness and quality
Proficiency with systems engineering and modern software development practices
Clear communicator able to explain cryptographic reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
Familiarity with quantum-resistant and post-quantum cryptography concepts is a plus
Experience writing or refining Semgrep/OpenGrep rules is a plus
Experience with repository scanning and remediation applications is a plus
Experience with LLM and agentic software engineering flows is a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Private health insurance
25 days of vacation / PTO
7 days of sick leave at 100% pay
Outstanding referral bonuses
Paternity leave – 15 days for new dads
Reduced working hours for the first month after returning from maternity
Development program (training & conferences, internal knowledge sharing)
Flexible work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

classical cryptographycryptographic mechanismssymmetric encryptionasymmetric encryptionhashingKDFMACencryption modesdata migrationsrepository scanning

Soft Skills

attention to detailpassion for correctnessclear communicationverbal communicationwritten communicationcollaborationanalytical skillscritical thinkingcustomer-facing skillscontinuous improvement