Senior Staff Engineer

Join HiveWatch as a Senior Staff Engineer on our Platform Team. In this role, you will architect and evolve our DevOps practices, edge infrastructure, and maintain operational excellence. You will drive the design, implementation, and operations of scalable solutions for our internal and external customers while providing technical leadership across our growing engineering team. This position offers a flexible work environment, comprehensive health benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

• Architect and evolve DevOps practices, edge infrastructure, and maintain operational excellence.
• Drive the design, implementation, and operations of scalable solutions for internal and external customers.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering a culture of communication and continuous improvement.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Proficiency in at least one language in our tech stack (Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or equivalent)
• Experience building and operating edge or IoT systems in production environments
• Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in production environments
• 5+ years of platform engineering, infrastructure, or distributed systems experience in a senior role
• Background in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments with on-prem deployment components
• Expertise in AWS architecture and services, including Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, and RDS
• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt specifically
• Experience in physical security, IoT, or edge computing environments
• Familiarity with hardware-constrained environments (embedded Linux, ARM, or similar)
• Track record of building internal developer platforms, SDKs, or deployment tooling
• Experience establishing platform engineering practices and culture from the ground up
• Experience mentoring and developing senior engineers
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
• Previous experience in a startup or high-growth environment (50–200 employees)
• Experience with our tech stack: Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, Python