Lead Software Engineer

About this role

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

Lead Software Engineer (CLM / Machine & AI Identity)

Qualys is looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to help evolve CertView CLM into a unified machine, workload, and AI-agent identity platform. You will lead design and delivery of scalable cloud-security services handling 100M+ transactions and terabytes of data daily, with focus areas including SPIFFE/SPIRE, ephemeral certificates, Kubernetes/service-mesh identity, managed cloud identities, and AI-agent governance.

What You’ll Do

• Lead architecture and development of next-generation CLM platform components
• Build high-scale identity ingestion and processing pipelines for short-lived credentials and workload identities.
• Drive roadmap delivery across ACME v2, SPIFFE/SPIRE integration, Kubernetes/service-mesh discovery.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, Security, VMDR, and TotalCloud teams to ship resilient, production-ready features.
• Mentor engineers on design, performance, distributed systems, and secure coding for PKI/identity systems.

Core Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on SaaS engineering experience in cloud environments.
• Strong Java/Spring Boot expertise; solid fundamentals in distributed systems and scalable API design.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka/JMS), caching (Redis/Memcached), and RDBMS (Oracle preferred).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and CI/CD.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science (or related field).
• Strongly Preferred Domain Experience (Any 2+)
• PKI/CLM (X.509, CSR workflows, CA integrations, CRL/OCSP, HSM-backed signing)
• ACME v2 / cert-manager
• SPIFFE/SPIRE and workload identity models
• Cloud managed identity (AWS/Azure/GCP) and OIDC federation
• Service mesh & mTLS
• Kubernetes controllers/operators and CRDs
• NHI and AI-agent security concepts and platforms

Nice to Have

• Post-quantum migration exposure
• CNCF/IETF contributions (SPIRE, cert-manager, OPA, WIMSE/ACME)
• Go or Rust experience for collectors/plugins/sidecars