Senior Staff Engineer

Saasventurecapital; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Saasventurecapital is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Platform Team in El Segundo, California. This role involves architecting DevOps practices, maintaining operational excellence, and providing technical leadership to the team.

You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability and maintainability of our systems, with deep involvement in the software delivery lifecycle. We seek candidates with expertise in cloud platforms like AWS and proficiency in programming languages such as Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, and Python.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills.
• 5+ years in a senior role with platform engineering or distributed systems.
• Expertise in cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve DevOps practices and edge infrastructure.
• Drive design, implementation, and operations of scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across the engineering team.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

Containerized applications

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

About Us:

HiveWatch is a tech-forward, inclusive organization fostering the evolution of the physical security industry. We are a diverse team of forward thinkers who empower each other to find creative and collaborative solutions in an industry ripe for modernization. We are passionate about the problems we’re solving for our customers and equally passionate about the company we’re building.

HiveWatch is here to help security teams pivot from chasing threats to preventing them. We protect organizations, people, and property through the intelligent orchestration of physical security programs. With better communication, more insights, and less noise, we are modernizing what it means for businesses and their employees to truly feel safe.

The Role:

HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our Platform Team, where you'll architect and evolve our DevOps practices, edge infrastructure that connects our SaaS platform to customer systems at the device level, and help us maintain operational excellence. You'll 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 role reports directly to our VP of Engineering.

What You’ll Do:

• Be a technical leader of Platform/DevOps initiatives including systems architecture and design, technical scoping and implementation of Platform features
• Your team will own mission critical systems and processes to include Edge Compute Environment, DevEx/CICD, Observability tooling, Network architecture, and SQL database maintenance
• Help evolve and update our software development and delivery practices adopting AI-Native techniques that empower us to move with speed & integrity
• Build and extend solutions with observability in mind to ensure service level agreements with our customers are met
• Reliably deliver integral 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 contribute to root cause analysis and process improvement of our operations
• Participate in the end-to-end lifecycle of software delivery through planning, development, deployment, testing, maintenance & monitoring
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, fostering our culture of communication, openness, continuous improvement and engineering excellence

Our Tech Stack:

• 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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
• Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Proficiency in at least one language in our tech stack (Kotlin, Rust, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience building and operating edge or IoT systems in production environments
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or equivalent)
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in AWS architecture and services, including Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, and RDS
• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt specifically
• Background in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments with on-prem deployment components
• 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