Senior Backend Engineer (Device Cloud API Services)

Location: Austin, Texas

About the role

Design, develop, and maintain the Python/API services that front our cloud video platform. This Senior Backend Engineer will take significant ownership of gateway-scale REST APIs and legacy video-storage services, working across Django/DRF, async Python, PostgreSQL, and our bare-metal Kubernetes platform. The role requires a senior engineer who can independently solve complex distributed-systems problems, improve and modernize production services, and work effectively across application, database, and infrastructure boundaries. AI development tooling is used as a force multiplier throughout the development lifecycle, allowing engineers to focus on architecture, complex problem solving, and critical review while accelerating routine implementation and refactoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain high-scale Python REST API services, including gateway services with extensive asynchronous communication to downstream systems.
• Take substantial ownership of critical API, including ongoing development, production reliability, and modernization.
• Build and maintain asynchronous Python services using Django/DRF, asyncio, aiohttp, and httpx, with strong API design, authentication, validation, and testing practices.
• Aggressively monitor and maintain performance metrics across globally distributed system.
• Independently diagnose complex cross-service issues, collaborate with senior engineers and QA, contribute technical guidance and mentoring.
• Leverage AI coding tools effectively while critically reviewing generated changes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of complex production systems.
• Deep experience building Python REST APIs with Django/Django REST Framework and asynchronous Python technologies.
• Comfortable with database design, global replication, and performance turning.
• 5+ years Large scale remote IoT device management and configuration.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, vision, and dental plans (including company‑offset premiums).
• 401k with company match.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.
• Great Place to Work‑Certified™ company.
• In‑person collaboration and a “one‑team” atmosphere.
• Communal meals, recurring social events, and fully stocked workspaces.
• Mission to make physical spaces safer, smarter, and more autonomous—from single‑site businesses to global enterprises.
• Global footprint with headquarters in Bethesda, MD and Austin, TX, plus international offices in Amsterdam, London, Bangalore, and Tokyo.

Pay

The compensation for this full‑time salaried role ranges between $180,000 and $200,000 per year. Individual compensation packages are based on job‑related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, training, and market conditions.