Director, Engineering - Platform
Reports to: Vice President, Engineering
Location: Remote US
Compensation: $240,000 to $300,000 base with bonus and equity
What You’ll Do:
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.
At Huntress, we work with low walls between disciplines because we believe good ideas are everywhere and the best products come from teams working to deeply understand our customers, experiment, and validate our products.
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
What You Bring To The Team:
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
What We Offer:
100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
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