Director of Engineering, AI

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.

Job Summary
AI agents are moving into the enterprise fast, and securing them is one of Delinea's most important bets. As Director of Engineering for AI security, you will build and lead the engineering organization that discovers AI agents, gives them identity, and controls what they can do at the moment they act. You will own engineering delivery across the entire AI security platform and act as the engineering counterpart to the product leader for this area. This is a build-and-scale role: you will grow the team that delivers the platform and scale the technology from early customers to broad production use. This role will report directly into our VP of AI Product Engineering.

Leadership Responsibilities

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

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

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

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

What You'll Do

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

What You'll Need

• 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.

We'd Love to See

• 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.

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• 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.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• 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.