Staff Software Development Engineer

The Staff Software Development Engineer will design and maintain a cloud-native secrets management solution, providing technical leadership and ensuring high-quality delivery in a fast-paced environment.

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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 Staff Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role in launching and supporting a new cloud-native secrets management solution within the BeyondTrust platform.
You will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, delivering, and maintaining a cloud-based software solution utilizing modern orchestration technologies.
This is a unique opportunity for you to step up as a technical leader in solving cloud-scale challenges and delivering a bar-raising secret management solution as part of our SaaS offering.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and resilient full-stack platform components, services, and orchestration.
• Deliver outstanding user experience for complex web-based enterprise applications.
• Lead and contribute to the design of systems and provide technical leadership for projects with increasing complexity.
• Review functional and technical requirements to identify gaps and limitations, propose simplifications, and communicate ideas effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Be a bar-raiser for delivering results and taking end-to-end ownership individually and as part of a team.
• Relentless pursuit of high quality by leveraging engineering best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise-ready cloud-based systems.
• 4+ years of professional experience working with Go in production environments.
  Proficiency with C# or other object-oriented languages is a plus.
• Solid understanding of modern design patterns, with the ability to weigh trade-offs between multiple approaches to a solution.
• Led complex projects from start to finish, including design, implementation, testing, and release to production.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Provided mentorship and guidance to multiple engineers on projects you’ve led.
• Ability to influence stakeholders on strategic decisions.
• Experience with the full development lifecycle, including continuous integration and agile product release.
• Expertise in developing API services, distributed systems, and scalable microservices architectures.

Nice To Have

• Prior experience in security or secrets management solutions is preferred.
• Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and end-to-end testing tools like Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium.
• Hands-on experience architecting and developing micro-frontend solutions.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Who You Are

• You are a team player, eager and open to sharing successes and failures.
• You are flexible, can handle ambiguity, and adapt to shifting situations and requirements.
• You take the initiative to resolve issues proactively.
• You are persistent when facing roadblocks and know how to coordinate with others.
• You hold high standards, continuously raise the bar, and drive teams to deliver high-quality products and services.
• You understand best practices in software development, including testing, peer reviews, and resilient architectures.
• You make decisions based on data, balancing speed and risks.

Better Together

Diversity and inclusion are core values for us.
They guide how we build teams, cultivate leaders, and create a connected culture.

We care for our employees so they can serve our customers from diverse backgrounds.
When we are different together, we are stronger together.

About Us

BeyondTrust is the global leader in identity security, protecting paths to privilege.
Our identity-centric approach secures privileges and access, empowering organizations to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats from external and internal sources.

We are transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit attack impacts, trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and a broad network of partners.

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