Senior SDET, PAM

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a highly experienced Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our Privileged Access Management (PAM) team. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA or Chicago, IL 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 ensure the quality, reliability, and security of Keeper’s enterprise privileged access management platform.

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 Senior SDET on the PAM team, you will architect and build automation systems that validate complex, security-sensitive access workflows across cloud infrastructure, identity providers, and enterprise environments. This role focuses on automation framework design, CI/CD integration, and system-level quality, not manual testing or security engineering. You will partner closely with software engineers, product teams, and security stakeholders to ensure PAM features are reliable, scalable, and automation-ready from the ground up.

Responsibilities 

• Architect, design, and maintain scalable automation frameworks for PAM workflows
• Build reusable automation libraries for API, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Develop automation for privileged access workflows including credential rotation, access provisioning, and session management
• Automate authentication and identity flows such as OAuth, SAML, and SSO
• Validate access workflows across protocols such as SSH, RDP, and similar mechanisms
• Build and maintain automation for backend services, APIs, and cloud-hosted systems
• Integrate automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Manage containerized test environments using Docker and Kubernetes
• Investigate automation failures, perform root-cause analysis, and improve long-term stability
• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, Security, and Product teams to embed testability into system design
• Contribute to quality engineering standards and automation best practices across the organization
• Use AI-assisted tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to support test development, debugging, root-cause analysis, documentation, and workflow efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, or software development in test
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript
• Proven experience designing and building automation frameworks or test systems
• Hands-on experience with modern automation tools such as Playwright or Pytest
• Strong experience testing APIs, distributed systems, and security-sensitive workflows
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with containerized or cloud-native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Understanding of authentication and identity concepts such as OAuth, SAML, and identity providers
• Ability to troubleshoot complex system interactions and automation failures
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across teams
• Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to improve test automation, debugging, technical analysis, and documentation
• Due to this role’s involvement with FedRAMP compliance requirements, qualified candidates must be a U.S. Person

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience testing privileged access management or identity-centric security products
• Familiarity with cloud or security automation frameworks
• Exposure to remote access protocols such as SSH, RDP, and VNC
• Experience contributing to automation metrics or observability systems

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)

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)
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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: [email protected]