Senior Software Engineer, Developer Tools – SDKs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, development, and enhancement of Keeper Commander, including its SDKs, CLI tools, and developer automation features.

• Take ownership of the technical direction and implementation for Keeper’s Python and .NET SDKs, Commander CLI, and associated developer automation functionalities.

• Stay actively engaged in architecture, coding, debugging, and design while mentoring a small team of engineers.

• Collaborate with Product, QA, Security, and engineering teams to ensure that Commander is secure, dependable, extensible, and simple to integrate.

• Define and propel the technical architecture and long-term strategy.

• Design, create, and maintain secure, scalable SDKs and developer tools for both Python and .NET.

• Spearhead the development of CLI features, APIs, and integrations for enterprise administrators, developers, and DevOps teams.

• Architect integrations with CI/CD platforms, cloud services, infrastructure automation tools, and enterprise systems.

• Set technical standards for SDK design, versioning, compatibility, error handling, testing, and documentation.

• Write production-level code and troubleshoot complex features and issues.

• Lead architecture reviews, design conversations, and technical decision-making processes.

• Work in partnership with Product to translate customer requirements and platform priorities into scalable solutions.

• Collaborate with Security and QA to enhance secure coding, testing, reliability, and release quality.

• Diagnose and resolve issues related to performance, concurrency, authentication, integrations, and distributed workflows.

• Enhance the developer experience across APIs, documentation, examples, tools, and onboarding processes.

• Support and nurture the open-source ecosystem through pull request reviews, issue management, community engagement, and documentation.

• Mentor engineers and elevate engineering standards through code reviews and design critiques.

• Plan and sequence technical initiatives, balancing delivery with maintainability and technical debt.

• Assess technologies and patterns that enhance SDK performance, security, extensibility, and developer productivity.

• Utilize AI-assisted tools like Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms for coding, debugging, research, testing, and documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on development in Python and .NET.

• Extensive experience in building SDKs, APIs, CLIs, developer tools, automation frameworks, or platform integrations.

• Proven capability to design and evolve software architectures utilized by external developers or enterprise clients.

• Strong understanding of API design, backward compatibility, versioning, and developer experience.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with their associated APIs and security services.

• Familiarity with DevOps and infrastructure automation tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, or Azure DevOps.

• Solid understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, and secure software development practices.

• Experience in designing and troubleshooting distributed or integration-heavy systems.

• Strong debugging abilities across application, API, network, and integration layers.

• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, and release engineering practices.

• Experience in contributing to, maintaining, or supporting open-source software.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction without relying solely on formal authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the capability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.

• Ability and enthusiasm to effectively utilize AI-assisted tools for software development, debugging, research, and documentation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Due to the nature of this role in GovCloud environments, qualified candidates must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

• Preferred: Experience in leading a small engineering team or acting as a technical lead.

• Preferred: Experience with secrets management, privileged access management, identity security, or cybersecurity platforms.

• Preferred: Experience with Go, PowerShell, or other automation-focused languages.

• Preferred: Experience in developing cross-platform software for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

• Preferred: Familiarity with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, or similar cloud security services.

• Preferred: Experience with package distribution, dependency management, and SDK release workflows.

• Preferred: Contributions to widely used SDKs, CLI tools, developer platforms, or DevOps automation projects.

• Preferred: Experience in designing public APIs or developer-facing integration platforms.

🏝️ 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 recognizes your commitment and seniority (including paid Bereavement/Jury Duty, etc.).

• Above-market annual bonuses.