Confidential Computing Consortium Technical Community Architect - Contract position

The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) needs a skilled, technical advocate to accelerate and promote the adoption of confidential computing technologies and security best practices. In this role, you'll guide open source projects towards greater security and maturity, mentor contributors, and represent the CCC at conferences and in the broader software security community.

• Facilitate adoption of security best practices e.g., OpenSSF Best Practices Badge, OpenSSF Scorecard, OpenSSF baselines, etc., across the CCC project portfolio

• Facilitate project maturity by maintaining the Project Support Matrix and work with the TAC Liaison to encourage projects to write blogs, record demos, participate in the mentorship program and present at conferences.

• Gain technical understanding of  CCC projects such that you can describe the projects, their capabilities, and use cases at conferences and help recruit adoption and contributions

• Coach new contributors and mentor all in becoming better open source contributors

• Assist in the production of community events and serve as the Foundation’s  technical expert presence at third-party events

• Represent CCC projects at conferences, including speaking and presenting as required

• Tell the world about our work via blog posts, social media, and other channels

• Help identify and recruit beneficial projects into the CCC

• Identify and champion areas of interoperability and solutioning between and among projects of the CCC and other foundations to promote and encourage accessibility and use of confidential computing technologies that address adopter use cases and security objectives

• Confidential Computing: concepts and demonstrated software implementation experience

• Software Security: concepts and demonstrated experience

• Open Source: culture, governance, practices, concepts and demonstrated experience

• Git: source control concepts and git command line competence  

• Technical writing: demonstrated experience breaking down complex, specialized topics into easy to understand, relevant and actionable information,  communicating security and technology(ideally software security) concepts to general audiences that lack experience in security or are unfamiliar with confidential computing

• Public speaking: experience speaking at conferences on technical topics in an engaging manner,  participating in technical panels, and staffing booths at conferences while advocating for contributor participation in confidential computing projects.

Salary $80,000 - $100,000 USD

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.