What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Software Engineering position at Delinea?
About Delinea
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to help us achieve our mission.
Summary
Delinea is looking for a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead the engineering team behind our Platform Authorization product—a critical component of the Delinea platform that delivers secure, scalable access control for our cloud-native services.
This is a technical leadership role where you'll oversee a distributed team of U.S.-based engineers and international contractors. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of access control across Delinea's platform, combining architectural leadership, strong engineering discipline, and people management. If you're passionate about building secure systems at scale and mentoring talented engineers, we want to hear from you.
This position is preferred to be hybrid out of our Lehi, UT office.
What You’ll Do
Why work at Delinea?
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful equity and bonus program, and excellent benefits, including a full suite of medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous discretionary time off (DTO), and paid company holidays. We support all families with paid leave for new birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster-to-adopt primary caregivers.
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.
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to help us achieve our mission.
Summary
Delinea is looking for a hands-on Software Development Manager to lead the engineering team behind our Platform Authorization product—a critical component of the Delinea platform that delivers secure, scalable access control for our cloud-native services.
This is a technical leadership role where you'll oversee a distributed team of U.S.-based engineers and international contractors. You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of access control across Delinea's platform, combining architectural leadership, strong engineering discipline, and people management. If you're passionate about building secure systems at scale and mentoring talented engineers, we want to hear from you.
This position is preferred to be hybrid out of our Lehi, UT office.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design and development of the Platform Authorization service with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability.
- Manage, coach, and develop a globally distributed team of full-time engineers and contractors.
- Guide architectural decisions and contribute to technical design discussions across the organization.
- Maintain regular hands-on involvement in the codebase—this is a technical leadership role where you'll actively contribute to design and development alongside your team.
- Drive sprint execution and backlog prioritization using SCRUM and Agile methodologies.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, DevOps, Security, and other Engineering teams to define and deliver new capabilities.
- Promote engineering best practices including secure coding, testing, CI/CD, and peer reviews.
- Provide regular performance feedback, mentorship, and career development support for direct reports.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
- 10 years of professional software development experience, primarily using C# or other object-oriented languages.
- 3 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Azure, including deploying and scaling distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
- Deep understanding of Agile development, modern DevOps practices, and secure software delivery.
- Highly organized and effective in using tools like Azure DevOps for backlog management, sprint planning, and team coordination.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead discussions and drive decisions across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A player-coach mindset—you’re as comfortable diving into architecture or code as you are mentoring your team.
- Experience building authorization, authentication, or identity management services, especially in cloud-native or SaaS environments.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes (k8s), and ArgoCD for infrastructure automation and delivery.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP.
- Experience working with offshore or contract-based engineering teams.
Why work at Delinea?
- We’re passionate problem-solvers doing our part to make the world a safer place.
- We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.
- What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful equity and bonus program, and excellent benefits, including a full suite of medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous discretionary time off (DTO), and paid company holidays. We support all families with paid leave for new birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster-to-adopt primary caregivers.
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.