Sr Staff Software Development Engineer

About this role

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><u>The Role</u></p> <p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141477401 BCX8">BeyondTrust is seeking a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer to set the technical direction for the NHI Governance domain within our Pathfinder products. As one of the most senior engineers on the team, you will own architecture across the domain and its integration with our shared platform substrates, drive our hardest technical bets, and&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141477401 BCX8">establish</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141477401 BCX8">&nbsp;the standards, interfaces, and patterns that other teams build on. You will lead the server-side loop — discover, assess, and remediate non-human identities (service accounts, workload identities, secrets and keys, and AI agents) across cloud and&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW141477401 BCX8">on-premise</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW141477401 BCX8">&nbsp;environments — and act as a force multiplier across engineering, solving complex identity and security challenges at</span></p> <p><u>What You’ll Do</u></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Set and drive technical direction and architecture across the NHI Governance domain and its integration with shared platform services.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Own the most complex, high-risk, and cross-cutting technical initiatives end to end, from ambiguous problem to delivered system.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Define the standards, interfaces, and contracts that multiple teams and products depend on, and shepherd their adoption.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Partner with product, design, and peer engineering leaders to align technical strategy with business goals across BeyondTrust.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Act as a force multiplier — mentoring staff and senior engineers, raising the technical bar, and improving how the organization builds.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Lead design reviews and make&nbsp;the critical&nbsp;build/buy and architectural trade-off decisions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Drive quality, security, observability, and performance as first-class concerns across the domain.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Resolve ambiguity at the largest scope,&nbsp;ensuring&nbsp;the right problems are framed, sequenced, and solved.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><u>What You’ll Bring</u></p> <ul> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Deep&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;architecting and delivering large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Expert programming skills in C#, Go, TypeScript, Java, or other modern languages, with authority in API and&nbsp;distributed-systems&nbsp;design.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Hands-on experience with Claude Code (or comparable agentic AI coding tools) to design, build, and review software at high velocity, and the judgment to set the patterns, standards, and guardrails other engineers follow.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">A track record&nbsp;of owning architecture and technical direction across multiple teams or an entire domain.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Strong, hands-on AWS&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;designing, hosting, and operating production applications at scale, including compute (e.g., EKS), networking, IAM, managed data stores, and sound scaling, reliability, and cost trade-offs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Deep understanding of CICD and hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Experience designing multi-tenant shared services consumed by other engineering teams.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Familiarity with data modeling, exploration, and visualization at scale.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Exceptional problem-solving and the ability to drive clarity and technical direction amid significant ambiguity.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":264}">&nbsp;</span></li> <li><span data-contrast="auto">Excellent communication skills, able to inf