Director, Engineering - Platform

About the role

Huntress is seeking an experienced engineering leader to elevate our platform engineering teams and deliver the foundation for our security products. You will lead multiple high-performing teams, driving technical roadmaps and implementing state-of-the-art engineering practices to support our next phase of growth. This role focuses on building scalable solutions, coaching engineering managers, and fostering a culture of high performance and inclusivity.

Responsibilities

• Deliver performant, scalable products iteratively, helping your teams balance incremental customer value delivery with long-term product evolution
• Drive the technical roadmap and best practices for our product platform to enable scalability that will accommodate rapid growth and increased user demand
• Innovate new uses for AI development tooling and tune current use to be more efficient over time
• Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering talent
• Hire and coach engineering managers to continue to build and enable great teams
• Set clear expectations with your leaders, provide regular feedback, and conduct regular performance conversations to foster a high-performing engineering team
• Clearly measure engineering performance to make necessary adjustments to team structure and/or processes to increase throughput and efficiency
• Identify opportunities and implement improvements to both the product and engineering practices and processes to optimize efficiency, quality, and time-to-market
• Partner with other engineering leaders, product leaders, and architects to ensure our teams and technology are in sync and meet customer needs
• Collaborate with Huntress’s Architecture, Product Management, and Threat Operations teams to integrate their expertise and needs into our products

Required skills

• SaaS
• Engineering leadership
• Platform engineering
• Site reliability engineering
• AI development tools
• Scalable systems
• Performance management
• Team building

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products
• 5+ years of experience at the director level or higher

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401(k) with 5% contribution
• Life and Disability insurance
• Stock options
• Home office reimbursement
• Education and professional development allowance
• Digital reimbursement
• BetterUp coaching access

About the Company

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We back our technology with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center to ensure our customers' protection.