Senior Staff Engineer

HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join team and become the technical center of gravity for our HiveWatch Gateway edge appliance - the compute environment that connects our SaaS platform to customer systems at the device level. You'll develop the deepest expertise on this appliance as a full vertical stack: from the operating system and its hardening, up through the container runtime and orchestration layer, and across the observability and testing that keep it reliable in the field. Over time you'll be the person the team turns to on anything edge, setting technical direction while providing leadership across our growing engineering team. This role reports directly to our VP of Engineering.

Become the go-to expert and technical lead for our edge appliance - the Linux operating system, OS hardening and patching, the container runtime, and the orchestration layer - as a single, coherent, production-grade stack deployed across customer environments

Be a technical leader of Platform/DevOps initiatives including systems architecture and design, technical scoping and implementation of Platform features

Build and own the observability story for the edge: metrics, logging, and tracing that give us confidence in appliances running on infrastructure we don't physically control

Raise the testing bar for edge software - from test coverage through the fleet-level validation needed to ship changes to customer sites safely

Contribute to the remaining mission-critical Platform systems alongside the appliance: DevEx/CICD, network architecture, and database maintenance

Help evolve our software development and delivery practices, adopting AI-Native techniques that let us move with speed and integrity

Reliably deliver platform features to our customers on AWS using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern service delivery practices

Increase the resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of our production, test, and development environments

Assist with talent acquisition as we grow our high-performing engineering team

Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and own root cause analysis and process improvement for the systems you lead

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering our culture of communication, openness, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence\

Languages: Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, and Python

Deployments: GitHub Actions, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm

Infrastructure: AWS (Kinesis, Serverless, RDS, EKS), Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, IoT Edge, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux

Salary range for this position: $200,000 - $235,000 per year

Eligible to participate in HiveWatch Equity Incentive Plan

*Final offer will be at the company's sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of relevant experience and expertise, location, and other business considerations.

HiveWatch is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to cultivating a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. We execute our hiring practices so that they are merit-based and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, military or veteran status, or other protected characteristic.