EnvKey is hiring two engineers in SF to build dev-friendly end-to-end encryption

Hi HN,

EnvKey (https://www.envkey.com) is hiring its first two full-time engineers to help distribute and protect the world’s API keys, credentials, and configuration.

Through easy-to-use end-to-end encryption and dev-friendly integrations, EnvKey makes it ridiculously easy to keep configuration and secrets securely in sync across teams and servers.


We’re closing in on 100 paying organizations, handle millions of API calls per week, and have strong organic growth based primarily on word-of-mouth from developers who love us. We’re backed by great investors like YCombinator, FundersClub, Background Capital, and two founders of Firebase. Now it’s time to start building out a team as we make the product more robust and go after larger segments of the market.

Started by a solo technical founder (that’s me! :wave:), we have indie hacker roots and an engineering-led culture, but we’re also serious about building a large, profitable, and impactful business.

To do it, we need your help. As one our first hires, you’ll have a huge say in the direction of this product and future products. You'll get significant equity and the chance to help build a top-shelf engineering organization from the ground up. Apart from providing you with an endless stream of technical challenges at all levels of the stack, we’re also progressive when it comes to work-life balance, avoiding burnout, achieving more with less, and implementing smart practices that allow us to unplug and rest easy when we’re not working.

This is a unique opportunity for two exceptionally smart, experienced, and motivated engineers who relish overcoming obstacles and learning new things. Read on for more details.


Requirements


Either:

  - Has production experience with Javascript, Node, React, Redux or similar, and webpack or another bundler

  - Comfortable with functional programming techniques, promises, async/await, and generators

  - Experience with Typescript or an interest in learning

Or:

  - Has production experience with Go, Docker, orchestration tools (especially Kubernetes), and network security

  - Experience with AWS

Plus a few more:

  - Cares about security, knows and follows best practices

  - Understands the basic principles of public-key cryptography and cryptographic signatures

  - Is determined, takes ownership, does whatever it takes to get the job done

  - Can strike a balance between moving quickly and writing quality code

  - Writes tests

  - Values design, user experience, and developer experience

  - Is kind and open-minded

  - Wants to help establish good engineering, ops, and security practices like code review, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, etc.

  - Can work on-site in central SF office (soma) 3 days per week (+2 days remote)

  - Must be permitted to work in the US

Nice to haves


  - Experience with encryption libraries (especially NaCl, OpenPGP) and signature chains/webs of trust

  - Experience with Cloudformation/Terraform and VPCs

  - Experience with serverless architectures

  - Experience with GCP, Azure, and other cloud platforms

  - Experience with Rails or Electron

  - Is a polyglot (we need to write lots of wrapper libs and integrations)

  - Active in open source, involved in dev community

  - Willing to wear multiple hats—occasionally go to conferences, talk to customers, write blog posts, and be a technical evangelist

Work Style

  - Technical founder

  - Good work/life balance

  - 3 days per week onsite at central SF office (soma) + 2 days per week remote

  - Light meetings + time set aside for focused work without  interruptions

  - Pair programming when it makes sense

  - Transparency and open communication

Salary

  - Competitive salary and significant equity

  - Medical/dental/vision

  - 5 weeks vacation

  - New dev...