Senior Backend Engineer, Key Management

The world of digital assets is accelerating in speed, magnitude, and complexity, opening the door to new ways for leveraging the blockchain. Fireblocks’ platform and network provide the simplest and most secure way for companies to work with digital assets and it trusted by some of the largest financial institutions, banks, globally-recognized brands, and Web3 companies in the world, including BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Revolut, and thousands more. About the team The KMS team sits at the very heart of Fireblocks’ platform and is a pivotal team in the company. The team is responsible for the cryptographic backbone of the platform that secures customers’ most sensitive secrets. Every transaction signing flow. Every cosigner interaction. Every key generation ceremony. Every backup and recovery mechanism. If it touches a private key - it touches this team. The team performs mission-critical engineering at high scale, working on systems where failure is not an option, security is existential, performance matters and correctness is everything. The work is deep, challenging, and intellectually demanding - blending modern C++ systems programming with distributed backend architecture and applied cryptography. If you enjoy solving problems where security, scale, distributed systems, and adversarial thinking collide - this is your kind of challenge. What You'll Do: You’ll collaborate with backend engineers, infrastructure teams and security and cryptography researchers to ship production-grade highly secure digital signing systems, balancing cryptographic rigor, performance constraints, and distributed reliability in a domain where small mistakes have massive consequences. This includes: Architecting, designing and implementing distributed backend services responsible for key generation, storage and lifecycle management Developing high-assurance signing protocols and signing flows (utilizing MPC or external signing devices) Building secure backup and disas