Sr. Software Engineer, Platform

About the role

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. With millions of connected devices and customers across North America, we operate one of the largest IoT platforms in the industry, powering real-time experiences that matter in customers’ homes every day. We’re building a new engineering presence in Seattle to accelerate innovation and raise the bar on platform engineering. This team will take on some of the hardest distributed systems and infrastructure challenges in the company. You’ll work on systems that matter—where reliability, latency, and correctness directly affect people’s homes and safety. This is a chance to join at an inflection point, influence the architecture, and help build a high-caliber engineering hub.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-scale cloud services and APIs used by mobile apps, cameras, and smart home devices
• Own systems end-to-end: design, deployment, observability, and production operations
• Contribute to and lead architecture discussions for new platform capabilities
• Build systems that are secure, resilient, and low-latency in a distributed environment
• Develop event-driven systems and integrations across IoT, backend services, and mobile platforms
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall engineering bar
• Build and scale distributed systems that handle large volumes of real-time events
• Drive architecture and technical direction, not just implementation
• Improve performance, reliability, and operability of core platform services
• Collaborate across mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams to deliver end-to-end experiences
• Help establish engineering practices and technical culture for a growing Seattle team

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems (Senior → Staff level)
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred
• Strong experience in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
• Experience designing distributed systems with scalability, availability, and performance in mind
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC APIs
• Strong problem-solving skills and a track record of ownership and execution
• Experience working with modern cloud-native tooling (containers, orchestration, CI/CD)

Qualifications

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, messaging systems)
• Experience with IoT systems or device communication protocols (e.g., MQTT)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)
• Experience with video streaming and technologies (e.g. MP4, HLS, ffmpeg)
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for engineering workflows

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Performance bonus (AIP)
• Comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), and wellness programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flexible time off
• Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards
• Medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts

Pay

The base salary range for this position is: $153,000 - $185,000. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees.