Director, Engineering - job 2 of 2

BeyondTrust is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a safer world through our cyber security 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 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, product owners, architects, development managers, and other engineering leaders. You will also be responsible for mentoring teams in embracing cloud technologies, rapidly scaling teams, and advocating for engineering excellence.

What You’ll Do:

• Responsible for the full lifecycle of services that are always on; other products depend on services your teams develop and manage.
• Enable teams to be self-sufficient and foster a culture of ownership.
• Aid in architecture decisions for the platform and supporting infrastructure across services, data, pipelines, and deployment.
• Deliver and collaborate on platform roadmaps with product management and cross-functional operations and compliance teams.
• Drive clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities across teams.
• Champion learning organization principles.
• Mentor, coach, and scale leaders.
• Create a culture of collaboration between globally distributed teams.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience in delivering multi-tenant SaaS products.
• Experience in building or migrating products to distributed event-based systems using cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and knowledge of cloud designs.
• Clear understanding of DORA metrics, how to track them, and why they are important.
• Clear understanding of Agile methodologies and strong track record of product delivery.
• Excellent time management, communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Prior experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery strategies.

Nice To Have:

• Experience in building Security solutions.
• Experience with observability and telemetry platforms such as DataDog and Sentry.
• Experience in building cloud-native streaming, analytics, and data products at scale.
• Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences and vice versa.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills
• Experience with creative problem-solving in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment

Who Are You:

• You are a team force-multiplier who increases the impact of a team. You lead by example and do this via systems of feedback, structure, and direction.
• You recognize talents who are interested in growing, and you are invested in helping them learn and scale.
• You are flexible and can adapt to shifting situations and requirements.
• You take the initiative to fix issues before being assigned to them. You are persistent when facing roadblocks, overcoming them efficiently, and know how to coordinate with others when necessary.
• You hold high standards, continuously raise the bar, and drive our teams to deliver high-quality products, services, and processes.
• You understand software development best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architectures.
• You know how to balance speed and risks; you make decisions based on data.

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 worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, enabling organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access. We are leading the charge in innovating identity-first security and are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, plus a global ecosystem of partners.