Director of Engineering

HiveWatch•El Segundo, CA

35d•$203,000 - $255,000•Onsite

About The Position

HiveWatch is seeking a Director of Engineering to manage a high-performing engineering organization consisting of 3-4 squads of engineers covering product value streams. The role is based at their HQ in El Segundo, CA, with team members located in El Segundo, LATAM, and central Europe. This position reports directly to the VP, Engineering. The Director will mentor, lead, and grow software and infra engineers, operating effectively in a Series B environment, which includes being comfortable with ambiguity, lean processes, and hands-on involvement in code, design reviews, or incident response when necessary. The role also involves driving hiring strategy, motivating and communicating across multiple levels, building peer partnerships, translating the product roadmap into executable engineering plans, and managing key team performance metrics.

Requirements

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
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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Managing a high-performing engineering org consisting of 3-4 squads of engineers covering our product value streams
Mentoring, leading, and growing our team of software and infra engineers
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
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