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Staff Software Engineer, Certificate Lifecycle Management at Keeper Security

United States

Description Keeper Security is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Certificate Lifecycle Management to help architect and build the next generation of certificate and machine identity security capabilities within the Keeper platform. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the Chicago, IL or El Dorado Hills, CA metro areas. Keeper’s cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. Keeper is published in 23 languages and sold in over 150 countries. Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and help solve complex engineering challenges across PKI, certificate discovery, lifecycle automation, cryptographic trust and enterprise infrastructure. About Keeper Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at <a href="http://keepersecurity.com">KeeperSecurity.com</a>. About the Job As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Certificate Lifecycle Management, you will provide technical leadership for the architecture and development of capabilities that help enterprises discover, issue, deploy, monitor, renew, rotate and revoke digital certificates across complex environments. This is a highly technical, hands-on engineering role for someone with deep experience in PKI, certificate management or machine identity security. You will work across backend services, APIs, automation workflows and enterprise integrations while helping define the technical direction of Keeper’s certificate management capabilities. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Security, DevOps and Solutions teams to translate complex certificate and infrastructure requirements into secure, scalable and highly automated systems. Responsibilities <ul> <li>Architect and develop certificate lifecycle management capabilities spanning discovery, inventory, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation and revocation</li> <li>Design scalable backend services and APIs for managing certificates, machine identities and related cryptographic metadata across enterprise environments</li> <li>Build certificate discovery and automation workflows across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, web servers, load balancers, databases, network devices and other infrastructure</li> <li>Design integrations with public and private certificate authorities and enterprise PKI environments</li> <li>Develop secure workflows for certificate enrollment, key handling, trust validation and certificate deployment</li> <li>Solve complex engineering challenges involving certificate chains, trust stores, expiration, ownership, policy enforcement and cryptographic compliance</li> <li>Design systems that support automated certificate renewal and remediation while minimizing operational disruption</li> <li>Provide technical leadership on PKI architecture, machine identity, cryptographic standards and certificate automation</li> <li>Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on technical strategy, architecture, requirements and long-term platform direction</li> <li>Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers and help establish engineering standards for security-sensitive certificate management capabilities</li> <li>Evaluate emerging PKI, machine identity and cryptographic technologies and recommend architectural approaches</li> <li>Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms to improve technical research, software development, debugging, documentation and engineering efficiency</li> </ul> Requirements <ul> <li>8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend, infrastructure or security-focused systems</li> <li>Deep hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management, PKI, machine identity security or a closely related domain</li> <li>Strong understanding of X.509 certificates, certificate authorities, certificate chains, trust stores, private keys and public key cryptography</li> <li>Experience with certificate lifecycle operations including discovery, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation, revocation and expiration management</li> <li>Strong knowledge of certificate and PKI protocols and technologies such as ACME, SCEP, EST, OCSP, CRLs and TLS</li> <li>Strong backend software engineering experience using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C# or similar</li> <li>Experience designing scalable APIs, distributed systems and automation workflows</li> <li>Experience integrating with enterprise PKI systems, certificate authorities, cloud platforms or infrastructure technologies</li> <li>Strong understanding of secure key handling, authentication, authorization and cryptographic trust</li> <li>Experience working with cloud-native and enterprise infrastructure environments</li> <li>Ability to lead architecture discussions and make sound technical tradeoffs across security, scalability, reliability and usability</li> <li>Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams</li> <li>Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to support engineering, research, debugging, prototyping and technical documentation</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li> </ul> Preferred Qualifications <ul> <li>Experience building or contributing to a commercial certificate lifecycle management, PKI or machine identity platform</li> <li>Familiarity with platforms such as Keyfactor, DigiCert, Venafi, AppViewX, Sectigo or similar technologies</li> <li>Experience with Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services or other enterprise certificate authority environments</li> <li>Experience automating certificate management across Kubernetes, cloud workloads, CI/CD pipelines, web servers, load balancers or service meshes</li> <li>Familiarity with hardware security modules, key management systems and cloud key management services</li> <li>Experience with cryptographic policy, algorithm transitions and crypto-agility initiatives</li> <li>Experience with non-human identity, secrets management, privileged access management or workload identity</li> <li>Experience building security-sensitive enterprise SaaS products at scale</li> </ul> Benefits <ul> <li>Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)</li> <li>Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental Life</li> <li>Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance</li> <li>401K (Roth/Traditional)</li> <li>A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.)</li> <li>Above-market annual bonuses </li> </ul> Keeper Security, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Classification: Exempt<div class="content-conclusion">  Keeper Candidate Privacy Notice This notice explains how Keeper Security processes your personal data during recruitment. Depending on the role and location, the Controller of personal data (the organization responsible for determining why and how personal data is processed) will be Keeper Security Inc. (US), Keeper Security EMEA Ltd. (Ireland), or Keeper Security APAC K.K (Japan). 1. Data We Collect Information You provide: <ul> <li class="pf1">Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter</li> <li class="pf1">Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility</li> <li class="pf1">Application responses and uploaded documents</li> </ul> Information We generate: <ul> <li class="pf1">Interview notes, assessments, communications</li> <li class="pf1">Scheduling information</li> </ul> Information From Others: <ul> <li class="pf1">Recruiter/referral information who submit your profile</li> <li class="pf1">References (with your consent, before final offer)</li> <li class="pf1">Public professional profiles</li> <li class="pf1">Background verification (post offer)</li> </ul> Voluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information <ul> <li class="pf1">We may ask you to voluntarily provide diversity information including race/ethnicity, gender, disability status and veteran status (US). Providing this information is optional and Keeper collects this data in order to comply with EEOC and similar requirements</li> </ul> 2. How We Use Your Data <ul> <li class="pf1">Assess your application and suitability</li> <li class="pf1">Manage interviews and recruitment workflow</li> <li class="pf1">Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)</li> <li class="pf1">Comply with employment law obligations</li> </ul> 3. Legal Basis <ul> <li class="pf1">Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)</li> <li class="pf1">Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)</li> <li class="pf1">Legal and regulatory compliance obligations; explicit consent where required</li> </ul> 4. Who We Share Information With Internal: <ul> <li class="pf1">HR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration</li> </ul> *Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers. Third Parties: Service providers who assist with: <ul> <li class="pf1">Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers</li> <li class="pf1">Background verification vendors (post offer)</li> <li class="pf1">Recruitment agencies (where applicable)</li> <li class="pf1">Tools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data</li> </ul> Keeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place. 5. International Transfers Your data may be accessed by Keeper entities globally as needed for the purposes of hiring and decision making. We protect any such data transfer between Keeper entities using appropriate safeguards under applicable data protection laws. 6. Security We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards. 7. Retention We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it. Exceptions: <ul> <li class="pf1">You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)</li> <li class="pf1">You're hired (transfers to employee records)</li> </ul> 8. Your Rights You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them: <ul> <li class="pf1">Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements</li> <li class="pf1">Object to or restrict processing</li> <li class="pf1">Withdraw consent (where applicable)</li> <li class="pf1">Request data portability</li> <li class="pf1">Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority</li> </ul> If you become an employee, your rights regarding your employee record are governed by our internal Employee Privacy Notice and certain data will be retained as required under relevant laws such as employment or tax law.  When you request access to your personal data, some information may be redacted if it includes the personal data of other individuals or information that we must protect in order to preserve their privacy rights. 9. Automated Decisions Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing. 10. Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: privacy@keepersecurity.com  </div>

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Staff Software Engineer, Certificate Lifecycle Management

Keeper Security

Full Time

2 weeks ago

United States

Engineering

Staff

Job Description

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Certificate Lifecycle Management to help architect and build the next generation of certificate and machine identity security capabilities within the Keeper platform. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the Chicago, IL or El Dorado Hills, CA metro areas.

Keeper’s cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations globally. Keeper is published in 23 languages and sold in over 150 countries. Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and help solve complex engineering challenges across PKI, certificate discovery, lifecycle automation, cryptographic trust and enterprise infrastructure.

About Keeper

Keeper Security is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity software companies that protects thousands of organizations and millions of people in over 150 countries. Keeper is a pioneer of zero-knowledge and zero-trust security built for any IT environment. Its core offering, KeeperPAM®, is an AI-enabled, cloud-native platform that protects all users, devices and infrastructure from cyber attacks. Recognized for its innovation in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM), Keeper secures passwords and passkeys, infrastructure secrets, remote connections and endpoints with role-based enforcement policies, least privilege and just-in-time access. Learn why Keeper is trusted by leading organizations to defend against modern adversaries at KeeperSecurity.com.

About the Job

As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Certificate Lifecycle Management, you will provide technical leadership for the architecture and development of capabilities that help enterprises discover, issue, deploy, monitor, renew, rotate and revoke digital certificates across complex environments. This is a highly technical, hands-on engineering role for someone with deep experience in PKI, certificate management or machine identity security. You will work across backend services, APIs, automation workflows and enterprise integrations while helping define the technical direction of Keeper’s certificate management capabilities. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Security, DevOps and Solutions teams to translate complex certificate and infrastructure requirements into secure, scalable and highly automated systems.

Responsibilities

Architect and develop certificate lifecycle management capabilities spanning discovery, inventory, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation and revocation
Design scalable backend services and APIs for managing certificates, machine identities and related cryptographic metadata across enterprise environments
Build certificate discovery and automation workflows across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, web servers, load balancers, databases, network devices and other infrastructure
Design integrations with public and private certificate authorities and enterprise PKI environments
Develop secure workflows for certificate enrollment, key handling, trust validation and certificate deployment
Solve complex engineering challenges involving certificate chains, trust stores, expiration, ownership, policy enforcement and cryptographic compliance
Design systems that support automated certificate renewal and remediation while minimizing operational disruption
Provide technical leadership on PKI architecture, machine identity, cryptographic standards and certificate automation
Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on technical strategy, architecture, requirements and long-term platform direction
Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers and help establish engineering standards for security-sensitive certificate management capabilities
Evaluate emerging PKI, machine identity and cryptographic technologies and recommend architectural approaches
Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms to improve technical research, software development, debugging, documentation and engineering efficiency

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend, infrastructure or security-focused systems
Deep hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management, PKI, machine identity security or a closely related domain
Strong understanding of X.509 certificates, certificate authorities, certificate chains, trust stores, private keys and public key cryptography
Experience with certificate lifecycle operations including discovery, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation, revocation and expiration management
Strong knowledge of certificate and PKI protocols and technologies such as ACME, SCEP, EST, OCSP, CRLs and TLS
Strong backend software engineering experience using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C# or similar
Experience designing scalable APIs, distributed systems and automation workflows
Experience integrating with enterprise PKI systems, certificate authorities, cloud platforms or infrastructure technologies
Strong understanding of secure key handling, authentication, authorization and cryptographic trust
Experience working with cloud-native and enterprise infrastructure environments
Ability to lead architecture discussions and make sound technical tradeoffs across security, scalability, reliability and usability
Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams
Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to support engineering, research, debugging, prototyping and technical documentation
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building or contributing to a commercial certificate lifecycle management, PKI or machine identity platform
Familiarity with platforms such as Keyfactor, DigiCert, Venafi, AppViewX, Sectigo or similar technologies
Experience with Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services or other enterprise certificate authority environments
Experience automating certificate management across Kubernetes, cloud workloads, CI/CD pipelines, web servers, load balancers or service meshes
Familiarity with hardware security modules, key management systems and cloud key management services
Experience with cryptographic policy, algorithm transitions and crypto-agility initiatives
Experience with non-human identity, secrets management, privileged access management or workload identity
Experience building security-sensitive enterprise SaaS products at scale

Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)
Employer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental Life
Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
401K (Roth/Traditional)
A generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.)
Above-market annual bonuses

Keeper Security, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Classification: Exempt

Keeper Candidate Privacy Notice

This notice explains how Keeper Security processes your personal data during recruitment. Depending on the role and location, the Controller of personal data (the organization responsible for determining why and how personal data is processed) will be Keeper Security Inc. (US), Keeper Security EMEA Ltd. (Ireland), or Keeper Security APAC K.K (Japan).

1. Data We Collect

Information You provide:

Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter
Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility
Application responses and uploaded documents

Information We generate:

Interview notes, assessments, communications
Scheduling information

Information From Others:

Recruiter/referral information who submit your profile
References (with your consent, before final offer)
Public professional profiles
Background verification (post offer)

Voluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information

We may ask you to voluntarily provide diversity information including race/ethnicity, gender, disability status and veteran status (US). Providing this information is optional and Keeper collects this data in order to comply with EEOC and similar requirements

2. How We Use Your Data

Assess your application and suitability
Manage interviews and recruitment workflow
Consider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)
Comply with employment law obligations

3. Legal Basis

Legitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)
Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)
Legal and regulatory compliance obligations; explicit consent where required

4. Who We Share Information With

Internal:

HR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration

*Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.

Third Parties:

Service providers who assist with:

Applicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers
Background verification vendors (post offer)
Recruitment agencies (where applicable)
Tools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data

Keeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place.

5. International Transfers

Your data may be accessed by Keeper entities globally as needed for the purposes of hiring and decision making. We protect any such data transfer between Keeper entities using appropriate safeguards under applicable data protection laws.

6. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.

7. Retention

We keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it.

Exceptions:

You opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)
You're hired (transfers to employee records)

8. Your Rights

You have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:

Access, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements
Object to or restrict processing
Withdraw consent (where applicable)
Request data portability
Lodge a complaint with your data protection authority

If you become an employee, your rights regarding your employee record are governed by our internal Employee Privacy Notice and certain data will be retained as required under relevant laws such as employment or tax law.

When you request access to your personal data, some information may be redacted if it includes the personal data of other individuals or information that we must protect in order to preserve their privacy rights.

9. Automated Decisions

Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.

10. Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: privacy@keepersecurity.com

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