Head of Platform Engineering — Remote & AI-Driven Scale

Saasventurecapital; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

PTO

Parental leave

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Life & Disability

Stock options

Home office stipend

Education allowance

Digital reimbursement

Coaching access

Job summary

Huntress is a remote-first cybersecurity company seeking an experienced engineering leader to elevate our platform teams and deliver a scalable product foundation for multiple security products. You will lead several high-performing engineers across product platforms, using the latest AI tooling to accelerate growth.

You will recruit, coach, and guide engineering managers, set clear expectations, and drive performance reviews to build an inclusive, high-velocity organization that ships reliable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment.
• 5+ years at director level or higher.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI development tools.
• Experience and knowledge of best practices for scalable delivery, core platform systems, 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 working with architecture and product management leaders to develop and execute a shared product and technical vision.
• Experience in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively, balancing customer value with long-term evolution.
• Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for the product platform to enable scalability.
• Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and tune current use for efficiency.
• Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent.
• Hire and coach engineering managers to build great teams.
• Set clear expectations with leaders and conduct regular performance conversations.
• Measure engineering performance to adjust team structure and processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve product and engineering practices for efficiency and quality.
• Collaborate with architecture, product management, and threat operations to align needs.

Skills

Engineering leadership

SaaS

AI development tooling

Hiring & coaching

Performance management

Architecture collaboration

Site reliability engineering

Developer experience

Remote engineering

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

Huntress is a remote-first cybersecurity company seeking an experienced engineering leader to elevate our platform teams and deliver a scalable product foundation for multiple security products. You will lead several high-performing engineers across product platforms, using the latest AI tooling to accelerate growth.

You will recruit, coach, and guide engineering managers, set clear expectations, and drive performance reviews to build an inclusive, high-velocity organization that ships reliable