Director, Engineering - Platform

Huntress seeks an experienced leader to elevate our platform engineering teams and deliver the underlying foundation for purpose-built products that protect the 99%. In this role, you’ll be responsible for teams that develop our product platform, which powers our 5 (soon to be 6 and beyond) industry-leading security products. We’re seeking a passionate, inclusive engineering leader who can bring state-of-the-art engineering practices and deep experience in developing teams and people to accelerate our next growth phase. You will lead multiple teams of high-performing engineers, equipped with the latest AI tooling.

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

Requirements

10+ years of experience in engineering leadership building SaaS products in a modern SaaS environment; 5+ years of experience at the director level or higher; Hands-on experience with Claude Code or similar AI development tools; Experience and knowledge of best practices for scalable delivery, core platform systems, site reliability engineering, and developer experience; Experience developing, evolving, and maintaining high-volume, scalable solutions; Deep understanding of organizing engineering teams to deliver customer value iteratively; Skilled at hiring, building teams, leading, and coaching managers, and performance management; Demonstrated success working with architecture and product management leaders to develop and execute a shared product and technical vision; Experience in a fully remote environment

Benefits

100% remote work environment; Generous paid time off policy including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays; 12 weeks of paid parental leave; Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans; 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution; Life and Disability insurance plans; Stock options for all full-time employees; One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office; Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance; $75 USD/month digital reimbursement; Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth; bonus and equity