Lead Product Engineer – Key Management, Confidential Computing
enclaive
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Hamburg • Germany
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About the role
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle — architecture, development, release, maintenance, and evolution
- Design and implement secure key management capabilities for confidential cloud and AI workloads
- Extend and maintain a vHSM–based platform tailored for confidential computing environments
- Collaborate closely with founders, engineers, and product stakeholders to define roadmap and priorities
- Build production-grade features including: Secrets and key lifecycle management
- Access control and identity integration
- Hardware-backed security and confidential computing integrations
- Secure APIs and automation interfaces
- Drive secure-by-design development practices, threat modeling, and code reviews
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of the service
- Establish CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and release processes
- Support customer deployments, troubleshooting, and technical enablement when needed
- Contribute to architectural decisions around confidential cloud infrastructure and AI security
Requirements
- Strong hands-on backend or platform engineering experience
- Must: 8+ years Golang
- Typescript/Javascript, Rust are valuable
- Experience with KMS, HSMs, PKI, or secrets management systems
- Solid understanding of: Cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes environments
- Applied cryptography and key management concepts
- Secure system design and authentication/authorization models
- Experience building production-grade distributed systems
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices
- Familiarity with confidential computing, trusted execution environments, or hardware security modules is a strong plus, but not a necessity
- Product ownership mindset — you care about outcomes, not just code
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving startup environment
- Pragmatic decision-maker who balances innovation with reliability
- Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with intermediate engineers
- Willingness to take responsibility for long-term maintainability and operational excellence
Benefits
- Ownership of a core security product in a cutting-edge domain
- Lead, train and build a team
- Opportunity to shape confidential cloud and AI security infrastructure
- Small, highly technical team with real impact and autonomy
- Flexible working model and engineering-driven culture
- Direct collaboration with founders and deep technical influence on the roadmap
- Work with cutting-edge technology in confidential computing, secure AI, and multi-cloud security only few “geeks” currently know about
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GolangTypescriptJavascriptRustKMSHSMsPKIcloud-native architecturesKubernetesinfrastructure-as-code
Soft Skills
product ownership mindsetstrong communication skillspragmatic decision-makerability to work in a fast-moving startup environmentcollaborationresponsibility for maintainabilityoperational excellence