Hands-On Lead Product Engineer (Key Management & Confidential Computing)

Why This Role Exists

Confidential computing and secure AI are moving from research into real-world production but the industry still lacks trustworthy developer-friendly infrastructure for managing keys identities and secrets in encrypted environments. Todays security tooling was not designed for confidential workloads running across multi-cloud platforms trusted execution environments and autonomous AI systems.

This role exists to change that.

As Lead Engineer for Key Management & Confidential Computing you help define the security foundation that enables organizations to run their most sensitive applications healthcare systems regulated data platforms sovereign AI and critical infrastructure with strong cryptographic guarantees and verifiable trust.

You bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and production-grade engineering turning advanced cryptography and confidential computing concepts into real systems that developers can build on and enterprises can depend on. Your work lays the technical groundwork for a new generation of secure-by-default cloud infrastructure where privacy integrity and trust are built into the platform itself not bolted on later.

By shaping this core technology you directly influence how secure digital infrastructure evolves in Europe and beyond enabling innovation without compromising sovereignty data protection or user trust.

Role Overview

As Lead Product Engineer for Key Management & Confidential Computing you are the technical owner and hands-on builder of enclaives next-generation vHSM Key and Workload Identity Management Service. You combine deep engineering expertise with pragmatic technical leadership setting architectural direction driving engineering quality and mentoring a small but highly skilled team while actively contributing production code.

You shape how secure infrastructure is designed implemented and operated in confidential cloud and AI environments. Acting as both a technical authority and product-minded engineer you translate complex security requirements into scalable maintainable systems that meet real-world customer needs.

You will initially spend the majority of your time building core platform capabilities (approx. 80% hands-on engineering / 20% leadership) gradually evolving into a broader technical leadership role as the team grows.

In this role you will :

Define and drive technical architecture and engineering standards for the vHSM platform

Lead implementation of critical backend and platform components

Guide and mentor engineers through design reviews pair programming and technical coaching

Ensure long-term maintainability security and operational excellence

Bridge product vision and engineering execution in close collaboration with founders

Establish engineering best practices around secure development and distributed systems

Help scale the engineering team and shape its technical culture

Tasks

Your Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle architecture development release maintenance and evolution
• Design and implement secure key management capabilities for confidential cloud and AI workloads
• Extend and maintain a vHSMbased platform tailored for confidential computing environments
• Collaborate closely with founders engineers and product stakeholders to define roadmap and priorities
• Build production-grade features including :
• Secrets and key lifecycle management
• Access control and identity integration
• Hardware-backed security and confidential computing integrations
• Secure APIs and automation interfaces
• Drive secure-by-design development practices threat modeling and code reviews
• Improve reliability scalability and performance of the service
• Establish CI / CD pipelines testing strategies and release processes
• Support customer deployments troubleshooting and technical enablement when needed
• Contribute to architectural decisions around confidential cloud infrastructure and AI security

Requirements

Technical Skills

Mindset & Working Style

Benefits

What We Offer

Key Skills

APQP,Six Sigma,GD&T,Root cause Analysis,CAD,Project Leadership,SolidWorks,Mechanical Engineering,Quality Management,Product Development,Catia,Manufacturing

Employment Type : Employee

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1