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.

POSITION OVERVIEW: HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join team and become the technical center of gravity for our HiveWatch Gateway edge appliance - the compute environment that connects our SaaS platform to customer systems at the device level. You'll develop the deepest expertise on this appliance as a full vertical stack: from the operating system and its hardening, up through the container runtime and orchestration layer, and across the observability and testing that keep it reliable in the field. Over time you'll be the person the team turns to on anything edge, setting technical direction while providing leadership across our growing engineering team.

This role reports directly to our VP of Engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

: Become the go-to expert and technical lead for our edge appliance - the Linux operating system, OS hardening and patching, the container runtime, and the orchestration layer - as a single, coherent, production-grade stack deployed across customer environments Be a technical leader of Platform/DevOps initiatives including systems architecture and design, technical scoping and implementation of Platform features Build and own the observability story for the edge: metrics, logging, and tracing that give us confidence in appliances running on infrastructure we don't physically control Raise the testing bar for edge software - from test coverage through the fleet-level validation needed to ship changes to customer sites safely Contribute to the remaining mission-critical Platform systems alongside the appliance: DevEx/CICD, network architecture, and database maintenance Help evolve our software development and delivery practices, adopting AI-Native techniques that let us move with speed and integrity Reliably deliver 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 own root cause analysis and process improvement for the systems you lead 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 t