Director of Engineering

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.

As a Director of Engineering, you will be managing a high-performing engineering org consisting of 3-4 squads of engineers covering our product value streams from our HQ in El Segundo, CA. We have team members stretching from El Segundo to LATAM to central Europe. This role will report directly to our VP, Engineering. You will mentor, lead, and grow our team of software and infra engineers while operating effectively in a Series B environment—comfortable with ambiguity, lean process, and rolling up your sleeves into code, design reviews, or incident response when the situation calls for it.

As Director of Engineering you will also:

• Drive hiring strategy and close top engineering talent
• Motivate and communicate across multiple levels of their department
• Have successful peer partnerships with other department leaders in Engineering, and cross-functionally (product, sales, marketing, etc)
• Partner closely with Product leadership to translate roadmap into executable engineering plans, including running prioritization and trade-off conversations
• Development, measurement, and management of key metrics for team performance

• Excellent communication skills
• Expert hiring manager skills and experience
• A well developed people management philosophy for managers and engineers
• Experience managing managers and engineers
• Experience supporting enterprise customers (Fortune 500 or regulated industries) with high-touch deployments and uptime expectations
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple time zones (e.g., US plus Europe or LATAM)
• Has directly owned performance management cycles, including coaching, leveling, and exiting underperformers
• Preferred: experience scaling an engineering org through Series B to C growth
• Agile/kanban project management skills
• Commitment to understand, communicate and improve the quality of multiple teams
• Humble, servant leader

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, 5+ years of leadership experience
• 5+ years production operations experience
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures

HiveWatch is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to cultivating a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. We execute our hiring practices so that they are merit-based and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, military or veteran status, or other protected characteristic.