Hiive · 1 day ago
Associate Director of Engineering, Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/StaffHiive is a fintech/marketplace startup recognized as one of Canada’s top startups, connecting buyers and sellers of stock in venture-backed pre-IPO companies. As the Associate Director of Engineering, Platform, you will lead the DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering teams, focusing on operational success, technical strategy, and team growth.
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Responsibilities
Leading, mentoring, and growing teams across DevOps and SRE, fostering collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
Overseeing the platform engineering teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and maintaining high performance across all initiatives
Conducting regular performance evaluations, providing actionable feedback, and supporting professional development and career progression
Managing hiring, onboarding, and scaling efforts as the team and organization grow
Assisting in scaling the organization by leading hiring efforts and helping to identify improvements in processes and workflows
Guiding technical architecture decisions related to platform, infrastructure, automation, and observability, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with industry best practices
Reviewing technical designs, providing expert insights for improvement
Proactively identifying gaps and advocating for best practices in reliability, security, automation, and developer experience, and advocate for effective solutions
Establishing and upholding standards for platform stability, reliability, quality, performance, and security, ensuring robust monitoring, validation, and response practices
Championing continuous improvements to developer productivity and platform usability, supporting product engineering teams in achieving their best work
Owning incident response processes, including resolution, post-mortems, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities
Qualification
Required
Experience in senior leadership roles managing DevOps and SRE
Previous work experience at a scaling startup
Proven experience in platform architecture, site reliability engineering, automation, and DevOps methodologies
Demonstrated success in defining platform strategy, architecture, reliability, and automation
Strong people management skills with proven ability to mentor, grow, and lead engineering teams
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly engage both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders across product and engineering
Preferred
Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly with strong proficiency in EKS, RDS, and VPC
Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines, and Datadog for observability tooling
Previous experience working with and optimizing PostgreSQL
Experience with Cloudflare and Vercel
Experience with Playwright or similar test automation frameworks
Strong understanding of security best practices in platform engineering
Experience in regulated or high-compliance environments
Experience completing SOC2 or similar certifications
Experience working with Elixir
Benefits
Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing early-stage startup through our employee stock option plan.
Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health and dental premiums, a health and personal spending account.
A dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Womens’ Network events.
Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.
Company
Hiive
Hiive is the marketplace for private stock.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Hiive has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2022 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$4.17MKey Investors
Uncorrelated Ventures
2023-10-17Series A· $4.17M
Leadership Team
Stuart Eccles
Co-Founder & CPTO
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