About Keyfactor
Our mission is to build a connected society, rooted in trust, with identity-first security for every machine and human. Keyfactor helps organizations move fast to establish digital trust at scale — and then maintain it. With decades of cybersecurity experience, Keyfactor is trusted by more than 1,500 companies across the globe. We are proud to continually earn recognition as a Best Place to Work, and we achieve that through our amazing people who cultivate our culture as we grow. We hope you will trust your future with Keyfactor!
Job Title: Support Engineer, Tier 3
Location: United States; Remote, MST or PST
Experience: Senior Level
Job Function: Support
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Job Summary
The Support Engineer, Tier 3, functions as a senior individual contributor responsible for resolving the most complex and high-impact technical issues. This role provides technical leadership across the support organization, partners closely with Product and Engineering teams, and drives systemic improvements that enhance product stability, support effectiveness, and customer outcomes.
Applicants must hold US citizenship or US permanent resident status.
Job Responsibilities
Advanced Technical Resolution
- Independently resolves critical, complex, and high-severity customer issues, including those with broad operational or customer impact.
- Serves as an escalation point for advanced technical issues, applying deep diagnostic expertise across multiple technical domains.
- Proactively identifies and addresses issues prior to customer or executive escalation.
- Reproduces customer issues in lab or test environments to validate root cause and confirm resolution.
- Builds and maintains lab environments used for advanced troubleshooting, validation, and technical enablement.
Subject Matter Expertise
- Acts as a senior subject matter expert for assigned Keyfactor products, including Command and/or EJBCA.
- Provides expert-level guidance on PKI, cryptographic concepts, compliance considerations, and secure deployment practices.
- Applies broad domain knowledge to diagnose complex, non-routine issues across infrastructure, application, and security layers.
- Contributes technical insight related to emerging risks, architectural considerations, and support readiness.
Knowledge Sharing & Enablement
- Mentors and provides technical guidance to support engineers across all tiers.
- Identifies knowledge gaps through case analysis and operational data and contributes to targeted training and documentation.
- Develops and maintains technical documentation, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with internal standards and industry best practices.
- Promotes consistent knowledge sharing to improve overall team capability and reduce recurring issues.
Systemic Improvement & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Identifies recurring issues and systemic deficiencies and leads efforts to implement long-term corrective actions.
- Partners with Product, Engineering, and Support leadership to address root causes and improve product and support processes.
- Provides technical input that informs product quality, platform stability, and support scalability.
- Represents customer impact and operational risk during cross-functional discussions and incident reviews.
Customer & Incident Management
- Manages high-profile customer escalations and outages with professionalism, technical rigor, and clear communication.
- Communicates complex technical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Maintains accountability for case progression, resolution quality, and documentation accuracy.
Minimum Qualifications, Education, and Skills
- 3+ or more years of advanced technical support experience or demonstrated equivalent expertise in PKI or related security technologies.
- Demonstrated depth of expertise in one or more technical domains required to support Keyfactor products.
- Advanced knowledge of Windows Server and/or Linux, including IIS, ADFS, WAP, and Active Directory.
- Strong expertise in PKI, ADCS, certificate lifecycle management, and cryptographic principles.
- Proficient in SQL database analysis, including complex queries and table structure evaluation.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, including firewalls, load balancers, and proxy configurations.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical information clearly and professionally.
- Maintains a high standard of customer focus and operational accountability.
- Capable of identifying root causes of complex issues and articulating clear, actionable resolutions.
Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience.
Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits
We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas.
Here are just some of the initiatives that make our culture special:
- Second Fridays (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month minus November and December of 2025 due to the Holiday schedule). Please note that this benefit is subject to change.
- Comprehensive benefit coverage globally.
- Generous paid parental leave globally.
- Competitive time off globally.
- Dedicated employee-focused ambassadors via Key Contributors & Culture Committees.
- DIVERSE Commitment, a call to action for a more inclusive and diverse future in business, society, and technology.
- The Keyfactor Alliance Program to support DEIB efforts.
- Wellbeing resources, wellness allowance, mindfulness app free membership, Wellness Wednesdays.
- Global Volunteer Day, company non-profit matching, and 3 volunteer days off.
- Monthly Talent development and Cross Functional meetings to support professional development.
- Regular All Hands meetings – followed by group gatherings.
Our Core Values
Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:
Trust is paramount.
We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in every aspect of business.
Customers are core.
We strategize, operate, and execute through a customer-centric view. We prioritize the security interests of our customers, and we act as if their data were our own.
Innovation never stops, it only accelerates.
The speed of change is accelerating. We are committed, through investment and focus, to stay ahead of the innovation curve.
We deliver with agility.
We thrive in high-paced and continually changing environments. We navigate through newly added variables, adjust accordingly, while driving towards our strategic goals.
United by respect.
Respect for all is what unites us. We promote diversity, inclusivity, equity, and acting with empathy and openness, both in our business and in our communities.
Teams make “it” happen.
Vision and goals are not individually achievable – they require teamwork. We pride ourselves in operating as a cohesive team, creating promoters and partners, and winning as one.
Keyfactor is a proud equal opportunity employer including but not limited to veterans and individuals with disabilities.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: Applicants with disabilities may contact a member of Keyfactor’s People team via [email protected] and/or telephone at 1.216.785.2990 to request and arrange for accommodations at any time.
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