Software Development Manager

The Role of a Software Development Manager at BeyondTrust

BeyondTrust offers a dynamic environment where your purpose aligns with creating a safer world through our cybersecurity SaaS portfolio. Our culture emphasizes flexibility, trust, and continuous learning, recognizing your growth and impact. You'll be part of a team that challenges, supports, and inspires you to achieve your best.

As a Software Development Manager, you will play a pivotal role in launching and enhancing our SaaS platform services. Initially, you will lead a team focused on critical security challenges in identity and authentication, designing, developing, and maintaining secure access services that scale across our products. Over time, your scope will expand into additional platform domains, enabling other products to onboard seamlessly. This role provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate technical leadership, grow a diverse engineering team, and overcome cloud-scale challenges to deliver secure, reliable, and extensible platform systems.

What You’ll Do

Leadership & Management

• Direct and manage a focused engineering team, ensuring alignment with company goals and efficient resource allocation.
• Build a strong engineering culture rooted in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Strategic Development

• Oversee development of platform services with an initial focus on identity & authentication (auth flows, SSO, OIDC, access control).
• Partner with product and security teams to define priorities, and expand scope into additional platform capabilities over time.

Operational Excellence

• Foster an adaptive, agile culture where the team delivers secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.
• Drive operational improvements and enforce high standards in availability, reliability, and customer support.

Team Development & Mentorship

• Recruit top talent, set clear expectations, and mentor engineers for growth in technical, product, and interpersonal skills.
• Empower senior engineers to lead technically while ensuring you stay engaged in understanding and representing the work.

Communication & Collaboration

• Effectively communicate with stakeholders, ensuring team alignment with organizational objectives.
• Build cross-functional partnerships across product, security, and engineering to drive outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 5+ years’ experience delivering and supporting enterprise-ready cloud-based systems.
• Solid Understanding of modern design patterns.
• Experience with the full development lifecycle, including product release in an an agile environment.
• Experience working on an Agile team in a continuous integration and development environment.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Strong background in one or more modern programming languages (C#, Golang, Java, etc.).
• Experience with agile methodologies and leading teams in a continuous integration/delivery environment.
• Expertise in developing API services and scalable microservices architectures.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Prior experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with authentication/authorization protocols (OIDC, SAML, OAuth2) and building secure identity services.
• Understanding of automated testing practices (unit, e2e, integration, smoke).

Who You Are

• You are a team force-multiplier who increases the impact of a team. You lead by example and do this via systems of feedback, structure, and direction. You recognize talents who are interested in growing, and you are invested in helping them learn and scale.
• You are flexible and can adapt to shifting situations and requirements. You take the initiative to fix issues before being assigned to them. You are persistent when facing roadblocks, overcoming them efficiently, and know how to coordinate with others when necessary.
• You hold high standards, continuously raise the bar, and drive our teams to deliver high-quality products, services, and processes.
• You understand software development best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architectures.
• You know how to balance speed and risks; you make decisions based on data.

Better Together

Diversity and Inclusion are core values at BeyondTrust, guiding how we build teams, cultivate leaders, and create a connected culture. We support our employees so they can best serve our diverse customer base. By hiring incredible people from varied backgrounds, we believe that 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 empowers organizations with effective solutions to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats, from external attacks to insiders. We are transforming identity security to prevent breaches, limit attack blast radius, and create superior customer experiences. Trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and supported by a global partner ecosystem. Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Management
• SaaS Platform Development
• Identity Security
• Authentication Protocols
• Cloud-Based Systems
• Microservices Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Leadership
• DevOps Practices
• Cybersecurity