Staff Software Development Engineer

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.