Staff Software Engineer – Digital Nova Scotia – Leading Digital Industry

Staff Software Engineer

BeyondTrust is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a safer world through our cyber security 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 seeking a Staff level Software Engineer (Backend) for the team that develops our Password Safe product. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in enterprise software development, and some experience partnering with product and engineering stakeholders to define use cases and implementation details for new features and enhancements.  Password Safe helps our customers to manage privileged passwords, accounts, keys, secrets, and sessions for people and machines; and secure non-privileged employee passwords for business applications.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop service-oriented software using C# / .NET / .NET Core
  • Be involved primarily in the service and database layers of the software
  • Analyze, create and review functional requirements for products based on use cases described by Product Management
  • Ensure the product’s scalability, reliability, consistency, and performance
  • Collaborate with other cross-functional team members to support the operation and maintenance of products
  • Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to support the operation and maintenance of products and improve the quality of those systems
  • Collaborate with other team members, teams, and stakeholders in the design, implementation, and maintenance of product functionality, creating efficient, reliable, reusable, and performant code
  • Propose and evaluate technical solutions as part of research spikes
  • Review, debug, and provide feedback on code written by other team members

What You’ll Bring

  • Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related field and 10 to 15 years of experience
  • Ability to understand any part of the software stack
  • Ability to thrive in an environment where some team members work remotely, independently, and as a team
  • Experience using C#, IIS, .NET 4.7, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and NuGet packages
  • Experience using or building RESTful APIs
  • A good understanding of SQL and relational database schemas
  • Experience writing unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, and/or end-to-end tests
  • Experience with at least one continuous integration system (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Circle CI, etc.)
  • Experience using git as a revision control system
  • Knowledge of industry best practices for secure coding practices, code quality and architecture
  • Experience with full lifecycle of development in an agile environment.
  • Good understanding of network security, certificate usage and encryption.
  • Good understanding of Azure Active Directory and Active Directory
  • Familiarity with services provided by major cloud providers, ideally those provided by Azure
  • Strong English written and verbal communication, presentation and people skills.
  • A proven interest in growing your knowledge and skills

Nice To Have

  • Experience developing in the full software stack, including Angular front ends would be beneficial
  • Experience writing and reviewing technical specifications and design documents
  • Basic networking knowledge about IPs, subnets, DNS, Network Security Groups
  • Agile team experience: Working as a team in scrums, sprints & retrospectives
  • Security Knowledge: This is what we do. You may not know everything related to security, but you know what security customers want, and how to make sure they get it. You have a strong desire to learn as much as possible about network security.

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 worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, enabling organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access. We are leading the charge in innovating identity-first security and are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, plus a global ecosystem of partners.