Director, Engineering

BeyondTrust is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a safer world through our cybersecurity SaaS portfolio.

Our culture of flexibility, trust, and continual learning means you will be recognized for your growth and for the impact you make on our success. You will be surrounded by people who challenge, support, and inspire you to be the best version of yourself.

The Role

As a Director of Platform Core Services at BeyondTrust, you will use your technical and leadership expertise to bring to market a highly scalable, reliable, available, and secure multi-tenant SaaS platform. You will be responsible for the architecture and implementation of platform services working collaboratively with product managers, program managers, architects, development managers, and other engineering and cross-functional leaders. You will also be responsible for mentoring teams in embracing cloud technologies, rapidly scaling teams, and advocating engineering excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Own the full lifecycle of foundational platform services that must be always on, including authentication, authorization, gateway, and customer onboarding.
• Drive a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement, with a focus on predictable delivery and measurable outcomes.
• Enable teams to be self-sufficient, establish clear ownership; and drive clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities across teams.
• Partner on architecture decisions for the platform and supporting infrastructure across services, data, pipelines, and deployment.
• Build and deliver platform roadmaps with strong product thinking, bring vision, treat platform services as products, and operate with a customer-obsessed mindset.
• Mentor and coach leaders, scale leaders of leaders, and strengthen the engineering leadership bench.
• Create a culture of collaboration across globally distributed teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 10+ years of software development experience, including building and operating production systems.
• 5+ years of experience in delivering multi-tenant cloud-based SaaS products.
• Experience building or migrating products to distributed event-based systems using cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and knowledge of cloud designs.   
• Knowledge of DORA metrics, how to use them, and how to use them to drive improvements.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies with proven track of record of product delivery.
• Excellent time management, communication, leadership, and organizational skills.

Nice To Have

• Able to align stakeholders around shared goals and drive delivery, managing risk and constraints through clear communication, simplification, and focus.
• Deep experience with cloud-native technologies and architectures (AWS preferred), including distributed systems and event-driven patterns.
• Strong observability and reliability experience in cloud environments, including metrics, logs, tracing, and incident workflows.
• Experience building cloud-scale streaming, analytics, and data products.
• Strong ability in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences and map business needs to technical plans.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills with a track record of building a strong written culture.
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment

Who You Are

• You are a force-multiplier who increases the impact of a team through clear direction, feedback loops, and lightweight structure.
• You develop talent and scale leaders, investing in growth and creating opportunities for others to expand their scope.
• You are curious and keep up with technology trends, including AI, applying them thoughtfully to improve productivity and execution.
• You operate well in ambiguity, adapting quickly to shifting priorities while staying focused on outcomes.
• You take initiative, surface risk early, remove roadblocks for team, and coordinate across teams to drive outcomes.
• You hold high standard and continuously raise the bar for product quality, operational excellence, and engineering practices.
• You have strong engineering fundamentals, including testing strategies, effective code reviews, and resilient system design.
• You balance speed and risks, making data-informed decisions and communicating tradeoffs clearly.

Better Together

Diversity. Inclusion. They’re more than just words for us. They are the guiding values of how we build our teams, cultivate leaders, and create a culture where people feel connected.

We take care of our employees so they can take care of our customers. Customers who come from all walks of life just like us. We hire incredible people from diverse backgrounds because when we are different together, we are stronger together.

About Us

BeyondTrust is the global identity security leader protecting Paths to Privilege™. Our identity-centric approach goes beyond securing privileges and access, empowering organizations with the most effective solution to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats, whether from external attacks or insiders.
BeyondTrust is leading the charge in transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit the blast radius of attacks, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies. We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and our global ecosystem of partners.
Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com. 
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