Keybase

Keybase was founded in 2013 as a hobby project by Chris Coyne and Max Krohn, who in previous businesses founded SparkNotes and OkCupid. Their original vision was to improve on PGP key distribution, but they quickly realized there was a huge opportunity beyond secure email.

Today, 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 beautiful UX to hide the complexity we've all come to associate with public key.

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. We've been waiting for this for years; be part of building it!

Interested? We're hiring generalist software engineers in both our NYC and SF offices. We need folks with good experience in some non-trivial 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 key to the masses.