Keybase is hiring
Keybase is a small, well-funded company of idealists who love what we're building. Our team and investors come from a variety of early roles at OkCupid, Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook, and more. We enjoy:
- bringing privacy & security to the masses
- making apps & interfaces
- ping pong & peanut M&M's & LaCroix water & team outings.
Join us!
Front-end Engineer
At Keybase, we are building apps on all platforms: iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows, using these web technologies:
- Electron & React - desktop apps
- React Native - mobile apps
- CSS/HTML/JS/a bit of old CoffeeScript - this website
You'll be building interfaces on all of these platforms. It will be a lot of fun.
Our apps are not "dumb clients" connecting to a simple web API: the Keybase apps communicate locally over an RPC layer to our core crypto libraries, which are written in Go. Performance and security are paramount.
It's an interesting and demanding project. It's also entirely open source.
Location
NYC, SF, or Chicago.
Please only apply if you live in one of those cities, or if you are willing to relocate.
Qualifications
- at least 3 years strong experience with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript; if you're coming out of school and have built a lot of things on your own, that counts
- an eye for fine details
- enthusiasm for the project
- a love of open source software*
To Apply
Please send an email to [email protected]. Include:
- a brief note introducing yourself
- your resume or a link to it (LinkedIn is fine)
- a link to web work you've done, so we can poke at your code
Senior Visual Designer
Keybase has a lot of fun stuff to build, and we're expanding onto so many platforms: apps on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a website, too.
We are building important software, and we have a strong design culture.
As Senior Visual Designer, you'll be working alongside our Lead Product Designer, Cécile, in the San Francisco office, and our co-founder in New York, Chris. Together, you'll make Keybase look better, work better, and be more popular, too.
Location
This job is a full-time position in San Francisco.
Requirements
- You have at least 4+ years experience working on the visual design of online applications
- You have experience building UI systems
- You are uniquely creative and critical, and you feel comfortable expressing your own honest opinion
- You advocate for a consistent visual style across products
- You are sensitive to typography, colors, composition and motion
- You produce user-centered interfaces
- You can draw icons (Bonus point if you can draw illustrations, extra bonus point if you can turn them into animated GIFs ✨ )
- You like working on one product and make it excellent and unique
To Apply
Please send an email to [email protected], and include:
- a brief note introducing yourself
- a portfolio / website link.
Software Engineer
Keybase is working hard to bring all the promise of public key cryptography to regular people. We're solving three challenging problems in parallel, building out: (1) an open and auditable PKI based on social network identities; (2) support for all mobile and desktop platforms, so that every device can have its own private key; and (3) viral sharing applications that use clean UX to hide the complexity we've all come to associate with public keys.
We want to change the way security works at a deep level, so that sharing, end-to-end security, and cloud hosting can peacefully coexist. And we won't be happy with isolated enterprise installs, or appeal to just hardcore tin-foil hats. We're aiming for widespread adoption: first among programmers, and eventually among consumers at large.
Interested? We're hiring generalist software engineers in our NYC, Chicago, and SF offices. We need folks with good experience in some non-trivial, likely proper subset of: distributed systems, file systems, security, cryptography, mobile and Web development, databases, storage, and UX. We hope you, like us, believe in our mission to bring the promise of public keys to the masses.
To apply, please submit to [email protected] :
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- if you have it, a GitHub profile or links to open source projects you've worked on
- a short snippet of code that you're particularly proud of, and a description of what it's doing; if you don't have that, then do the same for someone else's code
- a short note introducing yourself
Experience in the technologies we use is helpful but not required. They are: Go for core infrastructure; ObjC, Java and C# for native UI development on iOS, OSX, Android and Windows; Node.js and IcedCoffeeScript for Web development; FUSE for client file systems; MySQL/InnoDB, DynamoDB, S3 and EC2 for hosting.
Windows Build/Install/QA Engineer
Keybase is committed to delivering a high quality cross-platform product on mobile and desktop platforms. Recognizing that there is no bigger desktop platform than Windows, we're hiring a Quality Assurance and build release expert. We need folks with good experience in some or all of: QA and QA automation, build/release engineering, Windows and Windows installers. This is your chance to apply your Windows expertise to a cross platform, open source Go codebase. We hope you, like us, believe in our mission to bring the promise of public keys to the masses.
To apply, please submit to [email protected] :
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- if you have it, a GitHub profile or links to open source projects you've worked on
- a short note introducing yourself
Experience in the technologies we use is helpful but not required. They are: Go, Electron frontend, WIX, Jenkins, S3, and Git.
