Senior Director, Reliability and Security Engineering

Responsibilities

• This position is based in the Boston area to support close partnership with our Boston-based team.
• What success looks like
• Manage and grow the SRE and IT teams while building out our security-focused capabilities across both.
• Set a unified technical vision across reliability, security, and IT that treats all three as interconnected engineering disciplines.
• Improve Beacon's security posture through automation, infrastructure hardening, and policy-as-code.
• Ensure the reliability and availability of Beacon's cloud infrastructure, including the Kubernetes clusters that power our data scientists' distributed numerical workloads.
• Own and evolve Beacon's incident response practices, including on-call structure, escalation paths, and post-incident learning.
• Build self-service IT tooling and workflows that reduce friction for employees while maintaining strong access controls and compliance.
• Own Beacon's compliance roadmap, building on our existing SOC 2 certification and ISO 27001 audit in progress, toward HITRUST r2 certification in H1 2027.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability and security into the development lifecycle.
• Develop and mentor your direct reports, helping them grow their impact and navigate challenges along the way.
• Maintain outcome-oriented roadmaps for each team that connect to Beacon's broader strategic objectives, and communicate progress and priorities effectively to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Approximate experience: 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or security engineering roles, with 5+ years managing engineering teams including at least some experience at a director or equivalent level. Experience at a startup or growth-stage company is strongly preferred.
• You've managed multiple engineering teams simultaneously and have experience growing a team or function from the ground up.
• You approach security with an engineering mindset: you've implemented security controls as code, automated compliance workflows, or built tooling that made secure practices the path o

Benefits

Additional Information

Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for the brain. We are the leading at-home EEG platform supporting clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our FDA 510(k)-cleared Waveband EEG headband and AI algorithms enable quantitative biomarker discovery and implementation. Beacon's Clinico-EEG database contains EEG data from nearly 100,000 patients, and our cloud-native analytics platform powers large-scale RWD/RWE retrospective and predictive studies. Beacon Biosignals is changing the way that patients are treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

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