Engineering Jobs at Smallstep
Smallstep has one open engineering role, fully remote, paying USD 185k to 230k a year.
About Smallstep
Smallstep provides a unified platform for device identity and certificates. The platform secures devices, enforces Zero Trust, and simplifies cryptography. It secures access for humans, devices, workloads, AI agents, and MCP-based toolchains using hardware-backed, short-lived certificates. It supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for AI workloads and MCP servers instead of static secrets, and restricts AI and MCP access to trusted hardware. Smallstep co-developed ACME Device Attestation with Google at the IETF, a standard for high-assurance device identity.
The open role
- Forward Deployed Engineer: remote, USD 185k to 230k, posted 7 August 2026.
Also hiring at Smallstep
Its roles are in United States (1) and remote (1).
What engineering work involves at an early-stage startup
You own whole parts of the product rather than one service inside a large system. Expect to write the code, deploy it, and get paged when it breaks. Reviews are quick and the codebase is small, so a decision made on Tuesday can ship on Thursday.
Questions people ask
Where is the engineering job at Smallstep?
It is remote.
How much does it pay?
USD 185k to 230k a year, as stated in the posting.