# Sr Director, Engineering at BeyondTrust > Remote · North America · Director+ · Engineering management · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Abeyondtrust%3A8331782 (read 2026-11-12). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [BeyondTrust](https://alderhq.app/companies/beyondtrust) - Location text: Remote Eastern Canada \| Remote Eastern United States; Remote Canada; Remote United States - Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · North America (evidence: "Location: Remote Eastern Canada \| Remote Eastern United States; Remote Canada; Remote Unit") - Posted: 2026-11-12 (0 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-12 · last verified: 2026-11-12 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beyondtrust/jobs/8331782 - Skills listed (inferred): AWS ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (Canada, n 35): p25 CAD 182k, median CAD 210k, p75 CAD 231k ## Description (the employer's text) 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 BeyondTrust is looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead one of our core enterprise security product portfolios. You will own engineering for the portfolio end to end: technical direction, delivery, quality, and the people and leaders who make it happen. Our products protect privileged access for enterprises around the world and are deployed on-premises, as appliances, and as SaaS. We are looking for a leader who can serve a demanding enterprise customer base today while moving the portfolio forward on modern cloud architecture and AI-driven engineering. This is a senior, high-autonomy role. You will be expected to set direction, make and own significant technical and business decisions, and represent engineering with executives, product leadership, and customers. What You’ll Do ### Lead the Portfolio - Set the engineering strategy and technical vision for a portfolio of enterprise security products - Guide cloud architecture for the portfolio's SaaS offerings on AWS, with security, reliability, and scale built in - Balance investment across deployment models so every customer segment is well served - Partner with peer engineering leaders on shared services and common architecture ### Make Engineering AI-Native - Lead the adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development across the organization, from design and coding through testing and release - Set the standards, tooling, and expectations that make AI a normal part of how teams work, and measure the impact - Bring AI into quality engineering and operational workflows, not just code generation ### Deliver with Quality - Own release quality and predictability across all deployment models - Champion modern quality engineering: test automation, continuous testing, and quality built into the pipeline - Ensure reliable, secure delivery of releases and updates to customers - Partner with Support and customer-facing teams on sustaining engineering and high-impact customer issues ### Build Security into Delivery - Own engineering's side of vulnerability response, from triage through fix to timely patch delivery - Partner with the security organization on threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing, and make sure findings turn into fixes - Treat security as a core product quality, held to the same standard as reliability and performance ### Build the Organization - Lead a multi-team organization of software engineers, quality engineers, and managers through directors and senior managers - Hire, develop, and retain a strong leadership bench - Establish planning and execution rhythms that give the business clear visibility into progress and risk - Own the engineering budget, headcount plan, and vendor and tooling decisions for the portfolio ### Partner Across the Business - Serve as the primary engineering counterpart to Product Management, owning feasibility and cost on roadmap commitments - Communicate clearly and proactively with executive leadership What You’ll Bring - 12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading multi-team organizations through managers and directors - A track record of delivering enterprise software with a large installed base, ideally spanning on-premises and SaaS - A background in secure software development: you have built and shipped security-sensitive software, worked closely with security teams on threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing, and led engineering's side of vulnerability response through fix and patch - Strong AWS fluency: you have led engineering for products running on AWS and can engage credibly on architecture, security, and cost - Hands-on conviction about AI in software engineering: you use AI tools yourself and have led their adoption across teams with measurable results --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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