Director, Engineering Operations

Description

Keeper Security is hiring a world-class Director, Engineering Operations to serve as the CTO’s primary technical partner and execution lead. This is a 100% remote position, with an opportunity for a hybrid schedule for candidates based in the El Dorado Hills, CA 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 drive architectural alignment, technical execution, and engineering acceleration across the organization.

About Keeper

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for organizations around the world with next-generation privileged access management. Keeper’s zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity solutions are FedRAMP and StateRAMP Authorized, FIPS 140-2 validated, as well as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certified. Keeper deploys in minutes, not months, and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by thousands of organizations to protect every user on every device, Keeper is the industry leader for best-in-class password management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging. Learn more at KeeperSecurity.com.

About The Role

As the Director of Engineering Operations, you will function as the CTO’s technical right hand, driving clarity, execution, architectural alignment, and engineering velocity across Keeper. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a delivery or program management function. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders to advance key initiatives, build proofs of concept, resolve complex technical challenges, and ensure continuity between the CTO’s strategic vision and day-to-day engineering execution. This role is not primarily a people-management position, though you may lead a small, high-impact team (up to ~10 engineers) as strategic initiatives expand.

Responsibilities

• Operate as a senior hands-on technologist within the Office of the CTO, accelerating high-impact engineering initiatives
• Design, architect, and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance systems across backend services, cloud infrastructure, and integration layers
• Translate the CTO’s technical vision into actionable architectures, prototypes, and execution plans
• Lead architectural reviews and ensure alignment across engineering teams on scalability, security, and reliability
• Identify and resolve complex technical bottlenecks in performance, observability, resiliency, and security
• Drive strategic R&D initiatives including platform modernization, automation, DevSecOps, and secure SDLC improvements
• Represent engineering in executive forums, leadership syncs, and occasional board-level technical discussions
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and vendors to improve platform scalability, developer velocity, and security posture
• Collaborate with engineering leaders on long-term technical strategy, roadmaps, and cross-functional initiatives
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads to elevate engineering excellence across the organization
• Participate in incident reviews, architecture assessments, system audits, and critical hiring efforts
• Potentially lead a small team of engineers as the Office of the CTO grows
  
  

Requirements

• 10 years of professional software engineering experience building secure, scalable, distributed systems
• Deep hands-on coding expertise across multiple backend and platform languages such as Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar
• Strong system architecture experience including API design, cloud infrastructure, and security-focused engineering
• Proven technical leadership in complex, high-scale, or security-sensitive environments
• Extensive experience with AWS and modern CI/CD practices
• Familiarity with privileged access management, secrets management, or cybersecurity platforms is strongly preferred
• Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and executive-level influence skills
• Ability to operate autonomously, drive clarity, and execute effectively in fast-paced, high-stakes environments
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  
  

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)
• Above market annual bonuses
  
  

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).

• Data We Collect
  
  

Information You Provide

• Contact details, CV/resume, cover letter
• Employment history, qualifications, work eligibility
• Application responses and uploaded documents
  
  

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• 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)
  
  

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• 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
• 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
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• Contracting steps (for progressed candidates)
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• 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.
  
  

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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.

• 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.

• Security
  
  

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data, consistent with our industry leading security standards.

• 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)
• 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
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• Request data portability
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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.

• Automated Decisions
  
  

Keeper does not make hiring decisions using solely automated processing.

• Contact - Candidates can send privacy questions to: privacy@keepersecurity.com