Keybase is hiring
Keybase is a small, well-funded company of idealists who love what they'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!
Perks of working at Keybase
- A shiny new computer and the stuff you need to get things done
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account
- 401(k) with 4% company match
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Off-site in a fun, new city every 6 months
- Free lunch every Friday
- Free drinks and snacks
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
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, Seattle, 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.
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 or New York City.
Requirements
- You have at least 4 years experience working on the interactive visual design of one or more products, including strong experience on a mobile app
- You have built or participated in building a UI system (or component library) on mobile or desktop
- You produce human-centered interfaces
- You understand how to use typography, colors, composition and motion effectively
- You can draw icons (Bonus point if you can draw illustrations, extra bonus point if you can turn them into animated GIFs ✨ )
- You advocate for a consistent visual style across products and platforms of a same brand
- You like iterating on one product to make it excellent and unique
- You are uniquely creative and critical, and you feel comfortable expressing your own honest opinion
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, Seattle, 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.
Identity Evangelist
We started with Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, HackerNews and Facebook, and now we're making a big expansion. We envision a near-future where there are 1,000+ platforms linked to Keybase that publicly share identity proofs. Keybase is looking to hire an Identity Evangelist to make this happen. Your mission would be to develop a list of social services that would be good Keybase partners, convince them to adopt our identity-sharing protocol, and to work with them to implement it.
The role will have aspects of a general tech evangelist, too. We'd like you to establish a public-facing role for Keybase, both virtually and in meatspace, to convince programmers to develop apps and bots using Keybase's chat protocol and APIs. Our API docs would also be under your purview.
The job requires knowledge of and experience in programming, but won't be as technically-focused as our other positions. Most of your output will be in the form of written communication, documentation, talks, and professional networking. We'd like you to travel to all conferences and companies that are beneficial to advancing the cause.
But as with our other posts, you'll be working with a small, smart and passionate team. We want to bring public key cryptography to the masses, and you'll be leading the charge.
To apply, please submit to [email protected]:
- a CV, LinkedIn profile, or text description of your career
- a short note introducing yourself
- some preliminary thoughts about how you would face the challenges above
Windows Front-End Engineer
At Keybase, we are building apps on all platforms: iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows. We're seeking an engineer to work cross-platform with us, but with a focus on Windows-specific concerns. While much of what we write is cross-platform, clearly there are UI, installer, packaging, updating, and system-interface concerns that need specific Windows love. In this role, you'll be an integral part of our front-end team, and have full dominion over the Windows edition of Keybase.
Our core technologies are:
- Electron & React - desktop apps
- React Native - mobile apps
- Go - business logic across all platforms
For our Windows edition, we also use:
- Native Windows APIs via Go wrappers
- The Dokan File system driver
- The Wix Installer framework
Location
NYC, Seattle, SF, or Chicago.
Please only apply if you live in one of those cities, or if you are willing to relocate.
Qualifications
- at least 1 year 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
- at least 2 years strong experience on the Windows platform and with Windows-specific desktop apps
- an eye for fine details
- enthusiasm for the project
- a love of open source software
To Apply
Please send an email to [email protected] with:
- 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
