Principal Software Engineer
Boston, MA · Remote
$235K - $294K/yr
Design and deliver a robust, multi-tenant KMS, including envelope encryption, customer-managed key ... This is a remote role JR: 2026-7830 #LI-Remote
Boston, MA · Remote
$235K - $294K/yr
Design and deliver a robust, multi-tenant KMS, including envelope encryption, customer-managed key ... This is a remote role JR: 2026-7830 #LI-Remote
Boston, MA · Remote
$235K - $294K/yr
Design and deliver a robust, multi-tenant KMS, including envelope encryption, customer-managed key ... This is a remote role JR: 2026-7830 #LI-Remote
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$140K - $170K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
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Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$140K - $170K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$175K - $215K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Quick apply
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$175K - $215K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$140K - $170K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$140K - $170K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$175K - $215K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
Woburn, MA · On-site +1
$175K - $215K/yr
This role allows for remote work in collaboration with STR's Woburn, MA and Arlington, VA offices ... Demonstrated experience writing maintainable, well documented code and APIs * Specific demonstrated ...
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| Aspect | Envelope Writer Remote | Envelope Mailroom Clerk |
|---|---|---|
| Credentials | Basic computer skills, sometimes typing or data entry experience | High school diploma or equivalent, some on-site training |
| Work Environment | Remote, home-based | On-site in mailroom or office setting |
| Industry Usage | Common in administrative, legal, or business services | Found in corporate, government, or educational institutions |
| Job Tasks | Preparing and managing envelopes digitally or via software | Handling physical mail, sorting, and distributing envelopes |
Envelope Writer Remote typically involves digital or software-based tasks from home, focusing on preparing envelopes electronically. In contrast, Envelope Mailroom Clerk works on-site handling physical mail. Both roles serve similar industries but differ mainly in work environment and task nature.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (IC6) to join our Customer Trust & Engineering organization as the technical owner of Identity & Access Management and Key Management Services. IAM and KMS are the bedrock of trust at DigitalOcean; our services sit in the critical path of every request, authorizing billions of transactions per second with single-digit millisecond latency, and securing the cryptographic material that protects every customer workload on the platform.
As an IC6, you won't just influence existing systems - you will define what our identity and key management platforms become over the next two to three years, and lead the engineers who build them. You will drive architectural strategy across multiple teams, resolve cross-cutting technical challenges, and set the standard for how DigitalOcean thinks about identity at hyperscale. If you are passionate about distributed systems, cryptographic security, and building foundational infrastructure that millions of developers depend on, this is the role for you.
What You'll Do:Own the Platform Vision: Define and drive the multi-year technical roadmap for IAM and KMS including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and cryptographic key lifecycle across DigitalOcean's global, multi-tenant cloud platform.
Architect for Hyperscale: Design high-availability, low-latency identity and key management services in Go that handle massive, sustained load across global regions with strong consistency and full auditability.
Lead Next-Gen Identity: Architect secure token exchange patterns and identity context injection for agentic AI workflows, building the IAM foundations that underpin DigitalOcean's emerging AI/ML platform offerings.
Evolve Key Management: Design and deliver a robust, multi-tenant KMS, including envelope encryption, customer-managed key patterns, and HSM-backed key material, that gives customers deep, fine-grained control over their data security posture.
Solve Complex AuthZ at Scale: Drive the evolution of our Policy Engine (Rego/OPA) to support advanced resource-level permissions, dynamic scoping, network-aware access conditions, and the complex authorization demands of agentic workflows.
Drive Cross-Team Impact: Partner with Inference, Billing, DOKS, and Platform Security to resolve architectural gaps that span multiple teams. Serve as the connective tissue between identity and the broader cloud platform and ensure security is an enabler of developer velocity, not an obstacle.
Set Engineering Standards: Establish cryptographic and identity engineering standards adopted org-wide. Lead design reviews for changes with cross-cutting platform risk and author RFCs that shape DigitalOcean's technical direction.
Mentor & Grow the Organization: Mentor and develop senior and mid-level engineers across IAM and adjacent teams. Conduct deep code reviews, model architectural thinking, and build a culture of security-first engineering.
What You'll Add to DigitalOcean:*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-7830
#LI-Remote
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Software development
501 - 1,000 Employees
New York, NY, US
2012