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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.\nKeeper’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.\nAbout Keeper\nKeeper 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.\nAbout the Job\nAs 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.\nResponsibilities\nArchitect and develop certificate lifecycle management capabilities spanning discovery, inventory, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation and revocation\nDesign scalable backend services and APIs for managing certificates, machine identities and related cryptographic metadata across enterprise environments\nBuild certificate discovery and automation workflows across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, web servers, load balancers, databases, network devices and other infrastructure\nDesign integrations with public and private certificate authorities and enterprise PKI environments\nDevelop secure workflows for certificate enrollment, key handling, trust validation and certificate deployment\nSolve complex engineering challenges involving certificate chains, trust stores, expiration, ownership, policy enforcement and cryptographic compliance\nDesign systems that support automated certificate renewal and remediation while minimizing operational disruption\nProvide technical leadership on PKI architecture, machine identity, cryptographic standards and certificate automation\nPartner with Product and Engineering leadership on technical strategy, architecture, requirements and long-term platform direction\nLead technical design reviews, mentor engineers and help establish engineering standards for security-sensitive certificate management capabilities\nEvaluate emerging PKI, machine identity and cryptographic technologies and recommend architectural approaches\nUse AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms to improve technical research, software development, debugging, documentation and engineering efficiency\nRequirements\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend, infrastructure or security-focused systems\nDeep hands-on experience with certificate lifecycle management, PKI, machine identity security or a closely related domain\nStrong understanding of X.509 certificates, certificate authorities, certificate chains, trust stores, private keys and public key cryptography\nExperience with certificate lifecycle operations including discovery, enrollment, issuance, deployment, renewal, rotation, revocation and expiration management\nStrong knowledge of certificate and PKI protocols and technologies such as ACME, SCEP, EST, OCSP, CRLs and TLS\nStrong backend software engineering experience using languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, C# or similar\nExperience designing scalable APIs, distributed systems and automation workflows\nExperience integrating with enterprise PKI systems, certificate authorities, cloud platforms or infrastructure technologies\nStrong understanding of secure key handling, authentication, authorization and cryptographic trust\nExperience working with cloud-native and enterprise infrastructure environments\nAbility to lead architecture discussions and make sound technical tradeoffs across security, scalability, reliability and usability\nProven ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams\nAbility and willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively to support engineering, research, debugging, prototyping and technical documentation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building or contributing to a commercial certificate lifecycle management, PKI or machine identity platform\nFamiliarity with platforms such as Keyfactor, DigiCert, Venafi, AppViewX, Sectigo or similar technologies\nExperience with Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services or other enterprise certificate authority environments\nExperience automating certificate management across Kubernetes, cloud workloads, CI/CD pipelines, web servers, load balancers or service meshes\nFamiliarity with hardware security modules, key management systems and cloud key management services\nExperience with cryptographic policy, algorithm transitions and crypto-agility initiatives\nExperience with non-human identity, secrets management, privileged access management or workload identity\nExperience building security-sensitive enterprise SaaS products at scale\nBenefits\nMedical, Dental & Vision (inclusive of domestic partnerships)\nEmployer Paid Life Insurance & Employee/Spouse/Child Supplemental Life\nVoluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance\n401K (Roth/Traditional)\nA generous PTO plan that celebrates your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.)\nAbove-market annual bonuses\nKeeper 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.\nClassification: Exempt\nKeeper Candidate Privacy Notice\nThis 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).\n1. Data We Collect\nInformation You provide:\nContact details, CV/resume, cover letter\nEmployment history, qualifications, work eligibility\nApplication responses and uploaded documents\nInformation We generate:\nInterview notes, assessments, communications\nScheduling information\nInformation From Others:\nRecruiter/referral information who submit your profile\nReferences (with your consent, before final offer)\nPublic professional profiles\nBackground verification (post offer)\nVoluntary Diversity and Equal Opportunity Information\nWe 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\n2. How We Use Your Data\nAssess your application and suitability\nManage interviews and recruitment workflow\nConsider you for other/future roles (we may seek your consent to keep your information on our systems beyond the retention period specified)\nComply with employment law obligations\n3. Legal Basis\nLegitimate Interests (recruitment management, security and integrity of the hiring process)\nContracting steps (for progressed candidates)\nLegal and regulatory compliance obligations; explicit consent where required\n4. Who We Share Information With\nInternal:\nHR, hiring managers, interviewers*, IT support for system administration\n*Note - diversity and equal opportunity data is not shared with hiring managers.\nThird Parties:\nService providers who assist with:\nApplicant tracking, recruitment systems and assessment providers\nBackground verification vendors (post offer)\nRecruitment agencies (where applicable)\nTools to support communication, collaboration and to securely store your data\nKeeper ensures that all our third parties are contractually bound to protect your personal data with adequate safeguards in place.\n5. International Transfers\nYour 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.\n6. Security\nWe implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.\n7. Retention\nWe keep your data for 24 months from your last application activity, then delete or anonymize it.\nExceptions:\nYou opt into our talent database for further retention by providing consent (extended retention)\nYou're hired (transfers to employee records)\n8. Your Rights\nYou have the following rights and can contact us at the email below to exercise them:\nAccess, correct, or delete your data, subject to applicable law and retention requirements\nObject to or restrict processing\nWithdraw consent (where applicable)\nRequest data portability\nLodge a complaint with your data protection authority\nIf 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. \nWhen 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.\n9. Automated Decisions\nKeeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.\n10. 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