Director of Platform Engineering — AI-Driven SaaS Leader

Huntress Labs; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work environment

Generous paid time off

12 weeks parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) with 5% contribution

Life and Disability insurance

Stock options for all full-time

Home office stipend $500

Education/professional development aid

Access to BetterUp coaching

Job summary

Huntress Labs, a remote-first cybersecurity company, seeks an experienced engineering leader to elevate platform teams and deliver a scalable foundation for multiple security products powering the business. You will lead high-performing engineers across the product platform, AI tooling, and site reliability initiatives to accelerate our next growth phase.

You will recruit and mentor engineering managers, drive the technical roadmap, and partner with Architecture, Product Management, and Threat

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership in SaaS environments.
• 5+ years at director level or higher.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI development tools.
• Experience in scalable delivery, site reliability engineering, and developer experience.
• Experience developing, evolving, and maintaining high-volume, scalable solutions.
• Deep understanding of organizing engineering teams to deliver customer value iteratively.
• Skilled at hiring, building teams, leading, and coaching managers, and performance management.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with architecture and product management to develop a shared vision.
• Experience in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively while balancing customer value and long-term evolution.
• Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for the product platform to enable scalability amid growth.
• Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and optimize current usage for efficiency.
• Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent.
• Hire and coach engineering managers to build and enable great teams.
• Set clear expectations with leaders, provide feedback, and conduct performance conversations.
• Measure engineering performance and adjust structure/processes to improve throughput.
• Identify opportunities and implement improvements to product and engineering practices.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Product Management, and Threat Operations to align needs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

SaaS expertise

Claude Code experience

Site reliability engineering

Hiring & coaching

Remote work experience

Architecture collaboration

Performance management

Tools

Claude Code or similar AI tools

Job description

Huntress Labs, a remote-first cybersecurity company, seeks an experienced engineering leader to elevate platform teams and deliver a scalable foundation for multiple security products powering the business. You will lead high-performing engineers across the product platform, AI tooling, and site reliability initiatives to accelerate our next growth phase.

You will recruit and mentor engineering managers, drive the technical roadmap, and partner with Architecture, Product Management, and Threat