Bonfyre is an employee engagement platform. We help organizations to create workplaces people love by identifying and driving the right team-level engagement actions - team activities, recognition, rewards, communications surveys, challenges, and more - at enterprise scale.

Customers from the Fortune 500 to small businesses leveraging our award winning Recognition & Rewards, Frontline, and Microsoft Teams solutions to increase engagement scores by double digits and save 5-7 figures annually through lower software and rewards costs.

We’re experiencing rapid growth, with 4x sales growth in 2024, and are now seeking a Director of Engineering, DevOps, and Security to join the Bonfyre leadership team. This role uniquely blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical contributions, requiring a leader who can set vision, mentor teams, and actively contribute to Bonfyre’s engineering initiatives, including writing code and building solutions that drive scalability, security, and innovation.

Leadership

1. Serve as a member of the Bonfyre leadership team, contributing to company-wide strategy, culture, and decision-making.
2. Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
3. Create, implement, and oversee engineering team processes and practices that drive development quality, velocity, and overall team engagement.
4. Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Customer Success and Sales to align engineering initiatives and resources with business objectives.
5. Stay updated on software development technologies including AI and evaluate their potential to improve Bonfyre’s business and productivity.

DevOps and Security

1. Strong experience with building and managing AWS infrastructure and tools ecosystems.
2. Oversee infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and system performance to maintain high availability and reliability.
3. Optimize cloud infrastructure and other engineering software costs where feasible while ensuring scalability and redundancy.
4. Implement, optimize, and manage logging to effectively identify performance problems, code-related bugs, and security threats that are easily actionable by our developers.
5. Champion a culture of security and performance and maintain and oversee Bonfyre’s information security protocols and controls for infrastructure, software development lifecycle, and company data and tools.
6. Manage various tools to support Bonfyre’s security posture – Vanta, Mosyle (MDM), identify management (Google Workspaces), Atlassian (BitBucket), etc.
7. Oversee all security certifications, assessments, and compliance including completion of IT risk assessments for prospective customers, penetration tests, and our annual SOC 2 Type 2 certification via Vanta.
8. Work with the development team to develop dashboards that unlock insights to help drive product roadmap, velocity, and efficacy.

Compensation

1. $185,000/yr base salary
2. Health, vision, and dental benefits. Bonfyre covers 100% of the employee’s benefits (you are responsible for any dependents).
3. Participation in Bonfyre’s 401K plan including up to a 2% match contribution.
4. $50/mo phone stipend.
5. Opportunity to participate in the stock options program.
6. Unlimited PTO and 5 sick days
7. Bonfyre is also closed between Christmas and New Years for US team members and observes the following holidays: New Year’s Day, MLK Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving (+Day after), Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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