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title: 'Staff Software Development Engineer at BeyondTrust'
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# Staff Software Development Engineer at BeyondTrust

- **Company:** BeyondTrust
- **Location:** United States / Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beyondtrust/jobs/8256005

## 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](http://www.beyondtrust.com/).

## About BeyondTrust

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BeyondTrust provides a unified identity and access security platform that protects identities, remediates threats, and delivers dynamic access across human, non-human, and AI identities.
- **Entity Type**: Private (backed by private equity; no public ticker)
- **Headquarters**: Not publicly available in provided sources (global company with offices in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, and more)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (roots trace to earlier companies; current entity formed through mergers and acquisitions)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – Identity and Access Security (Privileged Access Management, Identity Threat Detection and Response, Secrets Management, Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management, Secure Remote Access)
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises (75% of the Fortune 100 are customers), also government, mid-market, and SMBs
- **Mission**: "Fight every day to secure identities, intelligently remediate threats, and deliver dynamic access to empower and protect organizations around the world." Vision: "A world where all identities and access are protected from cyber threats."

## Products & Services
- **BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform**: Unified platform that integrates PAM, ITDR, Secrets Management, CIEM, and Secure Remote Access. Enforces least privilege, zero standing privilege, just-in-time access, and discovers hidden privilege paths.
- **Endpoint Privilege Management**: Removes local admin rights and enforces least privilege on endpoints.
- **Password Safe**: Enterprise password and secrets vault with rotation and just-in-time access.
- **Secure Remote Access**: Zero-trust remote support and vendor access (including Remote Support), with session management and credential vaulting.
- **Identity Security Insights**: Analytics and reporting on identity risk.
- **AI Analysis & AI Chat**: AI-powered threat detection and conversational interface for incident response.
- **Entitle**: Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) for multi-cloud environments.
- **MCP Integration**: Integration with Model Context Protocol for controlling AI agent privileges.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Not disclosed; recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM (7 years in a row), Forrester Wave Leader for PIM, KuppingerCole Leader for ITDR, and GigaOm Leader for CIEM.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Private equity owned (Francisco Partners and others per general knowledge, not explicitly in provided sources). Key partners include ServiceNow (integration with service desk workflows).
- **Growth Signals**: 75% of the Fortune 100 are customers; continuously hiring across 45+ open positions globally; named Inc. Best Workplaces 2023, Nova Scotia's Top Employer 2022, Best Workplaces in Tech UK 2022.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Pathfinder Platform**: Single platform covering all identity security use cases (human, non-human, AI) rather than disconnected tools.
- **True Privilege™ Technology**: Maps actual identity attack paths (lateral movement, shadow access, inherited entitlements) to uncover hidden Paths to Privilege.
- **Analyst Validation**: Consistently ranked as a Leader by Gartner, Forrester, KuppingerCole, and GigaOm.
- **AI Governance**: First-to-market governance for AI agent identities across multiple cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, Google, OpenAI, Salesforce, ServiceNow).
- **Zero Standing Privilege**: Automates just-in-time access and auto-revokes privileges to reduce attack surface.

## Strategic Focus
- **Convergence of Identity Security**: Moving beyond siloed PAM to a connected, privilege-centric identity security strategy.
- **AI Identity Governance**: Enforcing privilege controls on rapidly growing AI agents and non-human identities.
- **Cloud and OT Expansion**: Protecting identities across cloud, SaaS, and operational technology environments.
- **Integrating with Service Management**: Streamlining workflows through integrations with ServiceNow and other IT service management tools.
- **Customer Experience**: Maintaining industry-leading customer satisfaction scores through exceptional support and customer success.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Most roles are fully remote with flexible work arrangements; offices exist in multiple countries.
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Recognized by Inc., Nova Scotia's Top Employer, and Best Workplaces in Tech UK.
- **Core Values**: Teamwork, Integrity, Humility, Passion, Accountability, Results. Emphasis on continuous learning and growth, with training resources and career development programs.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: BeyondTrust Resource Groups (BTRGs) for affinity groups, community building, and educational events.
- **Transparency**: Monthly all-hands town halls where executives share business priorities and success metrics.
- **Community Impact**: BeyondGiving program supports employee-led sponsorships and global fundraising.
- **Benefits**: Competitive benefits package (details not fully disclosed but includes development tools).
- **Recruitment Authenticity**: The company warns about recruitment fraud, indicating a high focus on candidate safety.

## Sources
1. [beyondtrust.com - Company Overview](https://www.beyondtrust.com/company/overview)
2. [beyondtrust.com - Employee Life](https://www.beyondtrust.com/company/overview/employee-life)
3. [beyondtrust.com - Careers](https://www.beyondtrust.com/company/overview/careers)
4. [beyondtrust.com - Homepage](https://www.beyondtrust.com/)
5. [greenhouse.io - Current Openings](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beyondtrust)

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