[Hiring] Senior Director of Engineering @BeyondTrust

Role Description

BeyondTrust is looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead one of our core enterprise security product portfolios. You will own engineering for the portfolio end to end: technical direction, delivery, quality, and the people and leaders who make it happen.

Our products protect privileged access for enterprises around the world and are deployed on-premises, as appliances, and as SaaS. We are looking for a leader who can serve a demanding enterprise customer base today while moving the portfolio forward on modern cloud architecture and AI-driven engineering.

This is a senior, high-autonomy role. You will be expected to set direction, make and own significant technical and business decisions, and represent engineering with executives, product leadership, and customers.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the Portfolio:
  • Set the engineering strategy and technical vision for a portfolio of enterprise security products.
  • Guide cloud architecture for the portfolio's SaaS offerings on AWS, with security, reliability, and scale built in.
  • Balance investment across deployment models so every customer segment is well served.
  • Partner with peer engineering leaders on shared services and common architecture.
• Make Engineering AI-Native:
  • Lead the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development across the organization, from design and coding through testing and release.
  • Set the standards, tooling, and expectations that make AI a normal part of how teams work, and measure the impact.
  • Bring AI into quality engineering and operational workflows, not just code generation.
• Deliver with Quality:
  • Own release quality and predictability across all deployment models.
  • Champion modern quality engineering: test automation, continuous testing, and quality built into the pipeline.
  • Ensure reliable, secure delivery of releases and updates to customers.
  • Partner with Support and customer-facing teams on sustaining engineering and high-impact customer issues.
• Build Security into Delivery:
  • Own engineering's side of vulnerability response, from triage through fix to timely patch delivery.
  • Partner with the security organization on threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing, and make sure findings turn into fixes.
  • Treat security as a core product quality, held to the same standard as reliability and performance.
• Build the Organization:
  • Lead a multi-team organization of software engineers, quality engineers, and managers through directors and senior managers.
  • Hire, develop, and retain a strong leadership bench.
  • Establish planning and execution rhythms that give the business clear visibility into progress and risk.
  • Own the engineering budget, headcount plan, and vendor and tooling decisions for the portfolio.
• Partner Across the Business:
  • Serve as the primary engineering counterpart to Product Management, owning feasibility and cost on roadmap commitments.
  • Communicate clearly and proactively with executive leadership.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading multi-team organizations through managers and directors.
• A track record of delivering enterprise software with a large installed base, ideally spanning on-premises and SaaS.
• A background in secure software development: you have built and shipped security-sensitive software, worked closely with security teams on threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing, and led engineering's side of vulnerability response through fix and patch.
• Strong AWS fluency: you have led engineering for products running on AWS and can engage credibly on architecture, security, and cost.
• Hands-on conviction about AI in software engineering: you use AI tools yourself and have led their adoption across teams with measurable results.
• Experience with modern SaaS engineering practice: multi-tenant architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Experience leading quality engineering toward automation and continuous testing.
• Sound financial and vendor judgment, including build-vs-buy decisions and budget ownership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with executives, peers, and customers.

Nice To Have

• Identity or privileged access management domain experience.
• Experience leading teams building enterprise applications on .NET (C#).
• Experience with regulated cloud environments (FedRAMP, StateRAMP, or similar).
• Experience delivering AI-powered product capabilities.
• Experience leading distributed teams across countries and time zones.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience; Master's a plus.

Benefits

• Diversity and Inclusion as guiding values.
• Supportive culture that encourages employee growth and connection.