Senior Backend Engineer (Device Cloud Platform)

Department: Engineering - Video | Location: Austin

About the role

The Senior Backend Engineer on the Devices Cloud Platform team designs, builds, and maintains backend services and platform capabilities that support a global cloud video platform. This position provides senior-level ownership of critical systems supporting reliable communication, deployment, and operation of services across a distributed, multi-region environment. The role combines hands-on Go development with cloud-native platform engineering, spanning backend services, Kubernetes, networking, distributed systems, and production reliability. These systems also support the distribution of settings and configuration to edge devices, directly enabling customer-facing capabilities and helping solve real-world customer needs. The position contributes to platform architecture and engineering practices with a focus on building reliable, scalable systems that have a direct impact on both the product and the business.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and shared platform components that support customer-facing products and capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, testing, automation, documentation, and overall engineering quality.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, distributed-state, and production reliability issues across device-edge and cloud services, including SSH and reverse-tunnel workflows.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, provide technical guidance and mentorship, and contribute to architecture and development practices that improve the scalability and maintainability of the platform.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of relevant software or cloud engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of complex production systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Go expertise, with emphasis on concurrency, systems programming, and production HTTP services.
• Strong networking and distributed-systems fundamentals, including SSH protocol concepts, reverse tunneling, network security, and state coordination using technologies such as etcd and Redis.
• Experience with containerized CI/CD environments, production observability, and disciplined automated testing.
• Comfortable working across languages and reading Python/Django code when needed.
• Able to use AI coding tools productively while critically validating generated work.

About Brivo

Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks have come together to create a category-defining, cloud-first platform at the intersection of AI and the physical world. Our mission is to make physical spaces safer, smarter, and more autonomous—from single-site businesses to global enterprises. As the unified global leaders in cloud-based access control and video surveillance, we provide a comprehensive digital foundation for the built environment. By combining Brivo’s pioneering building access platform with Eagle Eye’s AI-powered video management system (VMS), we have created a system of intelligence that protects over 600 million square feet across 90+ countries. Every door, camera, and credential in our ecosystem acts as a real-time sensor, leveraging AI to prevent incidents, improve operations, and enable entirely new workflows across sectors, including commercial real estate, retail, healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure.

With a global footprint spanning headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and Austin, Texas, and international offices in Amsterdam, London, Bangalore, and Tokyo, we are leveraging our open APIs and cyber-secure cloud infrastructure to reshape the future of physical security.

Why Work for Us?

• Brivo is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and the global leader in cloud-based access control and video surveillance.
• Innovation drives our vibe, but purpose drives our mission. You will work on essential systems that protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and property worldwide.
• Your voice is heard, your talent is respected, and your contributions have a global impact.
• We thrive on in-person collaboration and a "one-team" atmosphere, embracing our international presence to leverage diverse ideas and backgrounds.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, vision, and dental plans (including company-offset premiums).
• 401k with company match.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) policy.
• Premium onsite experience featuring communal meals, recurring social events, and fully stocked workspaces.

Pay

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