Senior Site Reliability Engineer El Segundo, CA; On-site

Hive Watch is a tech-forward, inclusive organization fostering the evolution of the physical security industry. We are a diverse team of forward thinkers who empower each other to find creative and collaborative solutions in an industry ripe for modernization. We are passionate about the problems we’re solving for our customers and equally passionate about the company we’re building.

Hive Watch is here to help security teams pivot from chasing threats to preventing them. We protect organizations, people, and property through the intelligent orchestration of physical security programs. With better communication, more insights, and less “noise”, we are modernizing what it means for businesses and their employees to truly feel safe.

Hive Watch is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Team, where you'll build and operate mission-critical edge infrastructure that connects our SaaS platform to customer systems. You'll help ensure exceptional performance, reliability, and observability across our distributed environment.

• Improve 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

• Contribute to on-call runbooks, postmortems, and reliability best practices

• Languages:
  
  Kotlin, Rust, Type Script, and Python

• Deployments:
  Git Hub Actions, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Helm

• Infrastructure: AWS (Kinesis, Serverless, RDS, EKS), Kubernetes, Docker, Postgres, IoT Edge, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux

• Strong experience with AWS architecture and services

• Experience in physical security, IoT, or edge computing environments

• Experience with advanced AWS services (Kinesis, Lambda, EKS, RDS)

• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt specifically

• Background in high-availability, multi-tenant SaaS environments

• Experience participating in incident response and post-mortem processes

• 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, Type Script, Python

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong coding skills in production environments

• 3+ years of SRE, Dev Ops, or production operations experience

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, 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, Data Dog, or equivalent)

• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• Salary range for this position: $160,000 to $200,000 per year

• Eligible to participate in Hive Watch Equity…