Senior Software Engineer, Platform & Observability (AWS)

Saasventurecapital; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Incentive Plan

HQ on Main Street, El Segundo, CA

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the App Experience team, building core services and infrastructure powering the platform. You’ll work across backend, web, and mobile, ensuring fast, accurate, and always available security intelligence.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Design, design scalable backend systems, and contribute to observability and reliability. Join a modern security-focused company with on-call rotations and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in senior roles.
• Proficient in Kotlin/Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and implementing GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Strong proficiency with relational databases, SQL, data modeling, and query tuning.
• Experience building full-stack applications in microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship complete features from the web and mobile apps to the backend owning the full slice.
• Work closely with Product to understand tradeoffs between possible solutions, and how to implement decisions across the stack.
• Architect and develop scalable backend services, APIs, and data processing systems.
• Support production systems through incident response, troubleshooting, and break-fix activities to maintain service reliability and customer trust.
• Build and extend observability to meet service level agreements and understand usage patterns.
• Deliver features and services on AWS using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive technical decisions across the team.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation approximately 1 week per month.

Skills

Kotlin

TypeScript

Python

Rust

Java

Spring Boot

GraphQL

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Microservices

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Terragrunt

Helm

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

React

React Native

Job description

HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the App Experience team, building core services and infrastructure powering the platform. You’ll work across backend, web, and mobile, ensuring fast, accurate, and always available security intelligence.

You’ll collaborate with Product and Design, design scalable backend systems, and contribute to observability and reliability. Join a modern security-focused company with on-call rotations and growth opportunities.