Director of Engineering, AI

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  Build and lead a multi-team engineering organization for AI security, hiring and developing engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers.

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  Serve as the single engineering owner for AI security, accountable opposite the product leader for what the organization ships and when.

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  Grow the team across the US and Mexico while protecting quality, security rigor, and a strong engineering culture.

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  Set engineering standards and ways of working, and represent the organization to senior leadership and customers.

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  Define and drive the engineering roadmap for Delinea's AI security platform, from discovering AI agents to controlling what they can do at runtime.

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  Lead the teams building agent discovery and posture, agent identity and authorization, the AI gateway, and integrations with platforms such as Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Agentforce.

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  Own the key technical decisions, including the identity and authorization foundations the rest of the platform builds on.

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  Ensure the organization builds on Delinea's shared platform services rather than duplicating discovery, identity, or enforcement.

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  Partner with product, architecture, and field teams, and work directly with design and early customers to validate what you build.

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  Scale the technology from early customer deployments to broad production use, at the reliability, correctness, and auditability a security product demands.

• Typically 12 or more years in software engineering, with several years leading engineering teams, including leading other leaders or senior engineers.

• A track record of building and scaling engineering organizations and delivering complex backend or platform products to production.

• Strong technical depth in one or more of identity, authorization, cloud security, or distributed systems, enough to own architecture-level decisions.

• Experience owning a product or platform area end to end in close partnership with product management.

• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers and managers.

• Experience securing AI, agents, or large language model systems.

• Background in privileged access, identity security, or zero trust.

• Experience taking a new product from early customers to general availability.

• Experience handling and scaling data pipelines.

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.