- San Francisco, California, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Senior
- $230K–$340K per year
Build and maintain the runtime issuer/mint, edge verification, Passport, and Merkle audit log for the Agentic Economy team.
Compensation
Salary Range: $230,000 – $340,000 + Equity
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the runtime issuer/mint: OAuth Token Exchange (RFC 8693), JWS credentials (RFC 7515/7519, SD-JWT-VC), and Merkle audit log with real-time revocation.
- Own and evolve the wire format and claim registry: JWT profile, verification_level/verification_method enums, and eIDAS/NIST IAL/FATF CDD crosswalk.
- Implement sub-millisecond JWS verification and Web Bot Auth signature checks (RFC 9421) at the HTTP edge for counterparty CDNs, merchants, and publisher paywalls.
- Build and maintain Passport – the user's cloud-resident principal account with canonical handle, KYC/KYB record, authorized-operators list, audit feed, and authenticator binding.
- Develop operator integration: embedded KYB onboarding inside first OAuth 2.0 consent, per-operator opt-in, and webhook delivery via Svix.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Verifiable credentials
- Nice to have: SSI
- Nice to have: DID
- Nice to have: Certificate Transparency
- Nice to have: Trillian