Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

HiveWatch • El Segundo, CA

1d • $183,000 - $235,000 • Onsite

About The Position

HiveWatch is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Team. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and maintaining mission-critical edge infrastructure that connects our SaaS platform to customer systems. You will ensure exceptional performance, reliability, and observability across our distributed environment while providing technical leadership to our growing engineering team. This role reports directly to our VP of Engineering.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in production environments
• 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or production operations experience
• 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 object oriented programming language in our tech stack (Java, Kotlin, Python)
• Hands-on experience with relational databases and SQL performance optimization
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Expertise in AWS architecture and services
• Experience in physical security, IoT, or edge computing environments
• Expertise with advanced AWS services (Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, RDS)
• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt specifically
• Background in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments
• Experience establishing SRE practices and culture from the ground up
• Track record of leading incident response and post-mortem processes
• Experience mentoring and developing junior engineers
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
• Experience with edge computing and distributed system architectures
• Previous experience in a startup or high-growth environment (50-200 employees)
• Experience with our tech stack: Kotlin, Rust,TypeScript, Python

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of mission-critical systems including production monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across the full stack, from infrastructure to application code
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation to provide 24/7 coverage for critical systems
• Perform root cause analysis requiring deep code-level investigation and implement preventive measures
• Build automation and tooling to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability infrastructure, and database performance optimization
• Increase the resiliency, scalability, and maintainability of production environments
• Maintain on-call procedures and disaster recovery processes
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to foster engineering excellence and reliability culture

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Competitive compensation packages designed to reward top talent
• 401(k) with a 4% company match to help you invest in your future (match launches in 2026)
• Flexible paid time off so you can recharge when you need it
• ClassPass credits
• Discount on pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior