Sr Director, Engineering

About the role

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

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

What You’ll Bring

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

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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