Senior Staff Engineer

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El Segundo, CAPosted 14 days ago

Role Overview

Hivewatch is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer. This is a full-time role in El Segundo. Part of Hivewatch's Devops hiring, posted 2 weeks ago. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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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

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Where is the Senior Staff Engineer position at Hivewatch located?

This position is based in El Segundo. Hivewatch has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

What does a Senior Staff Engineer at Hivewatch earn?

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When was the Senior Staff Engineer role at Hivewatch posted?

This role was posted on June 26, 2026 (14 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

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