Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools & SDKs
Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead owning the technical direction of Keeper Commander — Keeper Security's Python and .NET SDKs, CLI, and developer automation tooling. Stays hands-on in architecture, coding, and security while mentoring a small team and improving developer experience. 100% remote (US), with a hybrid option near El Dorado Hills, CA.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote, US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on Python and .NET development
- Strong experience building SDKs, APIs, CLIs, developer tools, automation frameworks or platform integrations
- Proven ability to design and evolve software architectures used by external developers or enterprise customers
- Strong understanding of API design, backward compatibility, versioning and developer experience
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP and associated APIs and security services
- Familiarity with DevOps and infrastructure automation tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible or Azure DevOps
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption and secure software development
- Experience designing and troubleshooting distributed or integration-heavy systems
- Strong debugging skills across application, API, network and integration layers
- Experience with automated testing, CI/CD and release engineering practices
- Experience contributing to, maintaining or supporting open-source software
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability and willingness to use AI-assisted tools for software development, debugging, research and documentation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) due to GovCloud environment involvement
Nice to have
- Experience leading a small engineering team or serving as a technical lead
- Experience with secrets management, privileged access management, identity security or cybersecurity platforms
- Experience with Go, PowerShell or other automation-oriented languages
- Experience developing cross-platform software for Linux, Windows and macOS
- Familiarity with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager or similar cloud security services
- Experience with package distribution, dependency management and SDK release workflows
- Contributions to widely used SDKs, CLI tools, developer platforms or DevOps automation projects
- Experience designing public APIs or developer-facing integration platforms
Full description
Description
Keeper Security is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead to guide the architecture, development and evolution of Keeper Commander, including its SDKs, CLI tooling and developer automation capabilities. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity to work a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA metro area.
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 build the tools developers, administrators and DevOps teams use to securely automate and integrate with Keeper’s 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 the Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead for Commander, you will own technical direction and execution across Keeper’s Python and .NET SDKs, Commander CLI and related developer automation capabilities.
You will remain deeply hands-on in architecture, coding, debugging and design while also guiding a small team of engineers and raising engineering standards across the platform. You will work closely with Product, QA, Security and other engineering teams to ensure Commander remains secure, reliable, extensible and easy to integrate into modern DevOps and enterprise workflows. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys building developer-facing tools, APIs and automation platforms and who can move comfortably between low-level implementation details and broader architecture decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the technical architecture and long-term direction of Keeper Commander, including SDKs, CLI tooling and automation capabilities
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable SDKs and developer tools across Python and .NET
- Lead development of CLI features, APIs and integrations used by enterprise administrators, developers and DevOps teams
- Architect integrations with CI/CD platforms, cloud services, infrastructure automation tools and enterprise systems