Staff Software Development Engineer

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

BeyondTrust is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and support cloud-native workload credential management within our BeyondTrust platform. You will lead a fast-paced team, shaping architecture, orchestration, and end-to-end delivery for a SaaS security solution.

You will collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders, mentor engineers, and apply best practices to ensure scalable, secure, and resilient systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and supporting enterprise cloud-based systems.
• 4+ years of Go in production; proficiency in OO languages a plus.
• Strong design-pattern knowledge and system architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native components and services.
• Deliver a high-quality UX for complex enterprise web apps.
• Lead design discussions and provide technical direction.
• Review requirements, identify gaps, and propose solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive outcomes.
• Take end-to-end ownership and raise delivery quality.
• Apply engineering best practices across the full lifecycle.

Skills

Go

C#

OO languages

System design

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

CI/CD

Cloud & SaaS

API services

Distributed systems

Microservices

JavaScript frameworks

Angular/React

Tools

CI/CD tooling

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

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.

The Role

As a Staff Software Development Engineer, you play a crucial role in developing and supporting the cloud-native Workload credentials 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 deliver a bar-raising secret management solution as part of our SaaS offering.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable, resilient full-stack platform components, services, and orchestration.
• Deliver an outstanding user experience for complex web-based enterprise applications.
• Lead and contribute to system design and provide technical leadership on projects of increasing complexity.
• Review functional and technical requirements to identify gaps and limitations, propose simplifications, and communicate ideas clearly across cross-functional teams.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including engineering and non-engineering stakeholders, to drive project outcomes.
• Raise the bar for delivering results and take end-to-end ownership both individually and as part of a team.
• Pursue high quality relentlessly by applying engineering best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience delivering and supporting enterprise-ready, cloud-based systems.
• 4+ years of professional experience 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.
• A track record of leading complex projects from start to finish, across design, implementation, testing, and release to production.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience mentoring and guiding multiple engineers on projects you have led.
• Ability to influence stakeholders toward the right strategic decisions.
• Experience with the full development lifecycle, including continuous integration and product release in an agile environment.
• Expertise in cloud and SaaS development and strategy.
• Expertise in developing API services, distributed systems, and scalable microservices architectures.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, with deep knowledge of Angular, React, or similar.

Nice To Have

• Prior experience with security or secrets management solutions is preferred.
• Experience with major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Experience with managing services in production and at scale.
• Familarity with operations of cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with unit testing frameworks and end-to-end testing tools such as Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium is a plus.
• Experience using AI agents and harnesses in your day-to-day workflow.
• Authored or contributed to popular open-source projects.

Who You Are

• You are a team player, eager, and open to sharing successes and failures.
• You are flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to adapt to shifting situations and requirements.
• You take initiative to fix issues before they are assigned to you. You stay persistent when facing roadblocks, overcome them efficiently, and know how to coordinate with others when needed.
• You hold high standards, continuously raise the bar, and drive teams to deliver high-quality products, services, and processes.
• You understand software development best practices, from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews, resilient architectures, and evolving agentic workflows.
• You know how to balance speed against risk, and 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 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.