Senior Director, Reliability and Security Engineering

About this role

<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. </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. </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,…