Senior Software Architect, Security Platform

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a Senior Software Architect, Security Platforms to help define and drive architecture across Keeper’s product portfolio, including Privileged Access Management, Browser Extension and other core application platforms.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 shape the architecture behind Keeper’s next generation of security products and platforms

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 Software Architect, Security Platforms, you will provide architectural leadership across multiple Keeper engineering teams and product areas. You will work across frontend, backend, client, browser and security platforms to establish scalable technical patterns, resolve complex cross-product architectural challenges and guide teams through major design decisions.

This is not a purely advisory role. You will remain hands-on with architecture, prototyping, code reviews and technical problem solving while partnering with Engineering, Product and Security leadership to ensure Keeper’s systems remain secure, performant and maintainable as the platform grows. The ideal candidate has broad full-stack architecture experience, deep software engineering fundamentals and the ability to move comfortably across product domains, technologies and operating environments.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive architecture across multiple Keeper product areas, including PAM, Browser Extension and other core security platforms
• Establish scalable architectural patterns and technical standards across frontend, backend, client and distributed systems
• Lead architecture reviews and major technical design decisions for complex cross-product initiatives
• Partner with Engineering leadership and product teams to translate business and product requirements into scalable technical designs
• Evaluate trade-offs across centralized and distributed architectures, monoliths and microservices, synchronous and asynchronous systems and cloud-native deployment models
• Design systems with strong consideration for security, reliability, performance, extensibility and maintainability
• Guide architecture for APIs, services, authentication, authorization, data flows and integration patterns across product teams
• Provide technical leadership for high-scale SaaS systems and security-sensitive workflows
• Support architecture across browser-based, desktop, endpoint and platform components where applicable
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt and scalability constraints and drive pragmatic remediation strategies
• Build prototypes or reference implementations to validate architectural approaches and de-risk major initiatives
• Review critical code and design changes and provide technical guidance to senior and staff-level engineers
• Partner with Security teams on secure architecture, threat modeling and protection of sensitive data and credentials
• Establish standards for observability, reliability, testing and operational readiness across distributed systems
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams
• Evaluate new technologies, frameworks and architectural approaches that can improve platform capabilities and developer productivity
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot or similar platforms to accelerate technical research, prototyping, coding, debugging and documentation

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant software architecture or technical leadership responsibilities
• Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale production software across multiple product or platform areas
• Strong full-stack technical background across frontend, backend, APIs and distributed systems
• Experience designing highly available, scalable and secure SaaS architectures
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, object-oriented and modular design principles and architectural trade-offs
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture and cloud-native application design
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity, access control and secure application architecture
• Experience designing and integrating APIs, shared services and cross-product platform capabilities
• Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational database architecture, data modeling and performance considerations
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment environments such as AWS, containers and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of application performance, profiling, debugging and reliability engineering
• Experience evaluating architectural trade-offs involving scalability, resiliency, maintainability and developer velocity
• Proven ability to work across multiple engineering teams and influence technical decisions without direct authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, Product and leadership
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use modern AI-assisted development tools effectively for research, architecture, coding and technical analysis
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting browser extensions, desktop applications or client-side security platforms
• Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React
• Experience with backend technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Rust, C++, Go or similar languages
• Familiarity with browser security models, extension architecture, CORS and web application security
• Experience with endpoint security, operating system integrations or native client development
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing and secure software supply chain practices
• Experience with observability platforms, performance testing and production diagnostics
• Familiarity with accessibility standards, analytics platforms or enterprise product requirements
• Experience working across AI-enabled product initiatives, agentic systems or modern AI development workflows

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)
• 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