[Remote] Staff Software Development Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BeyondTrust is a global leader in identity security, and they are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead the evolution of their Pathfinder products within the cloud offering. The role involves designing and building scalable services, mentoring engineers, and driving technical direction across cross-functional efforts.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and resilient platform services, APIs, and data pipelines
- Own architecture for complex, cross-cutting systems and define the interfaces and contracts other teams depend on
- Provide technical oversight and lead design for complex projects that span multiple teams
- Review functional and technical requirements to identify gaps and limitations, propose simplifications, and communicate ideas effectively with cross-functional teams
- Mentor and coach engineers, promoting best practices in security, operational excellence, and cloud-native development
- Contribute to platform-wide initiatives, aligning technical strategy with business goals across BeyondTrust
- Drive quality, observability, and performance across the services your team owns
- Help resolve ambiguity to ensure work is properly defined, scoped, and sequenced
Skills
- Expertise in architecting and developing microservices and cloud-native solutions
- Strong programming skills in C#, Go, TypeScript, Java, or other modern languages, with deep experience in API design and microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code (or comparable agentic AI coding tools) to design, build, and review software at high velocity, with the judgment to establish effective patterns and guardrails for the team
- Experience designing systems, interfaces, and contracts consumed by multiple teams or products
- Strong, hands-on AWS expertise in 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
- Understanding of CICD strategies and hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with data modeling, exploration, and visualization at scale
- Proven track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity while driving the technical direction
- Familiarity with modern observability and test strategies in cloud environments
- Full-stack familiarity (e.g., a modern JavaScript framework such as Angular or React with TypeScript) is a plus
- Domain experience in identity security: IAM, NHI/Secrets, cloud IAM (AWS IAM, Microsoft Entra ID), OAuth/OIDC
- Graph databases, graph data modeling, and analytics at scale
- Experience building multi-tenant shared services consumed by other engineering teams
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