Senior Director, Reliability and Security Engineering

Beacon Biosignals
Beacon Biosignals

Sales & Business Development

Boston, MA, USA

Posted on Jun 24, 2026
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp;</span></div> <div> <h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What you will be doing</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Senior Director, Reliability and Security Engineering to lead and grow the teams responsible for keeping Beacon's infrastructure reliable, secure, and productive. In this role, you'll manage our existing Site Reliability Engineering and IT functions, and build out our security engineering practice by bringing on and leading our first security-focused engineer. This role reports directly to Beacon's VP of Platform.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll inherit a functioning SRE team of four engineers and an IT Specialist, with a security-focused engineer already approved and joining soon. The immediate opportunity in security is to establish the practice, including strategy, tooling, and compliance posture, while your SRE and IT teams continue maturing. Beacon holds SOC 2 certification and is underway with our first ISO 27001 audit, with HITRUST r2 certification targeted for H1 2027.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a leadership role for someone who thinks like an engineer first. We want someone who sees reliability, security, and IT as software engineering problems: infrastructure-as-code over manual runbooks, automated compliance over audit scrambles, and self-service tooling that makes the secure path the easy path.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll own the strategy and execution across SRE, security, and IT, setting the direction for how Beacon protects its systems, supports its people, and scales its infrastructure as the company grows. Your teams will support everything from Kubernetes clusters running large-scale ML workloads to endpoint management and access controls for a globally distributed workforce.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients.</span></p> <p>This position is based in the Boston area to support close partnership with our Boston-based team.</p> <h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What success looks like</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Manage and grow the SRE and IT teams while building out our security-focused capabilities across both.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Set a unified technical vision across reliability, security, and IT that treats all three as interconnected engineering disciplines.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Improve Beacon's security posture through automation, infrastructure hardening, and policy-as-code.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ensure the reliability and availability of Beacon's cloud infrastructure, including the Kubernetes clusters that power our data scientists' distributed numerical workloads.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Own and evolve Beacon's incident response practices, including on-call structure, escalation paths, and post-incident learning.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build self-service IT tooling and workflows that reduce friction for employees while maintaining strong access controls and compliance.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability and security into the development lifecycle.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Develop and mentor your direct reports, helping them grow their impact and navigate challenges along the way.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintain outcome-oriented roadmaps for each team that connect to Beacon's broader strategic objectives, and communicate progress and priorities effectively to stakeholders.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What you will bring</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You've managed multiple engineering teams simultaneously and have experience growing a team or function from the ground up.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You're a strategic leader first, with enough technical depth to set a high bar, earn your team's respect, and engage meaningfully on architectural decisions. You understand the engineering principles underlying your teams' work — how infrastructure-as-code, incident response, and security automation fit together.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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 of least resistance.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You have meaningful experience with IT operations in a hybrid/remote environment, and you understand how to balance user productivity with security and compliance requirements.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You've worked in or adjacent to a regulated industry (biopharma, healthcare, fintech, etc.) and have hands-on experience with compliance frameworks. You understand how to maintain development velocity within those constraints.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You have strong incident management experience. You've led incident response in production environments and built the monitoring, alerting, and post-mortem practices that reduce recurrence.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Information-gathering is ingrained in every aspect of your work. Your decisions incorporate feedback from stakeholders, your reports, and historical context that you intentionally mine over time.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You demonstrate a bias towards simplicity, avoid misallocating complexity, and impose structure at the right time, not too early or too late.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You communicate clearly and follow through on decisions. You swiftly communicate changes with collaborators and stakeholders.</span></li> </ul> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes equity, PTO and other benefits.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.</span></div> </div>