Backend Software Architect

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote Salary: [Salary information not provided]

Position Overview

Keeper Security is seeking an experienced and strategic Backend Software Architect to join our high-performing engineering team. This is a hands-on, architect-level position focused exclusively on optimizing and scaling our backend software systems. 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 area.

Keeper's cybersecurity software is trusted by millions of people and thousands of organizations, globally. Keeper is published in 21 languages and is sold in over 120 countries. Join one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and be responsible for developing and executing automated tests, enhancing test suites, and ensuring the quality of our web applications.

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 Backend Software Architect, you will lead efforts to re-architect, refine, and evolve our core backend services. You’ll work closely with cross-functional engineers and stakeholders to ensure that Keeper's high-availability, cloud-native systems continue to meet the demands of scale, performance, and security in a rapidly growing enterprise environment. This is a unique opportunity to make a company-wide impact on code efficiency, runtime performance, and architectural resiliency across our backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical vision and architecture for optimizing backend performance, reducing system load, and increasing throughput.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership, product, and operations teams to define performance and scalability objectives for Keeper’s software platform.
• Analyze backend services (Java-based) to identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and scaling risks.
• Refactor and re-architect critical backend systems for scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
• Own the optimization of service-level interactions, data modeling strategies, and backend API contracts.
• Establish and promote coding best practices, performance monitoring strategies, and proactive issue detection in production environments.
• Provide architectural mentorship to development teams and contribute to hands-on design and code reviews.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement around backend architecture, service decomposition, and cloud-native design principles.

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an architect or technical lead capacity.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern Java frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Strong architectural background in building and scaling distributed systems running in AWS or other public cloud environments.
• Deep knowledge of SQL and NoSQL data stores (e.g., MySQL, DynamoDB), including schema design, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Proven success in optimizing backend performance (latency, memory, CPU utilization) at high scale.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native design, RESTful APIs, multithreading, and service orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and APM profiling.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to convey architectural concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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