Staff Software Engineer - School Safety Platform

The Role

We are expanding our mission of helping every student learn, thrive, and feel safe by building a new generation of school safety products. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be an early technical leader helping define and build category-defining products where software, hardware, and real-world operational reliability intersect.

You'll work on 0-to-1 products that directly impact student safety while solving complex engineering challenges across cloud platforms, real-time systems, device integrations, and large-scale distributed architectures.

Why This Role Matters

This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging problems at the intersection of software, hardware, distributed systems, and operational reliability while building products that have a meaningful and lasting impact on students, educators, and school communities.

What You'll Do

• Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world environments.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, communication systems, hardware devices, and external data sources.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and help shape the technical culture of a growing organization.
• Make thoughtful technology decisions that balance customer impact, operational complexity, speed of execution, and long-term maintainability.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex backend or full-stack systems end-to-end.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications.
• Experience building integration-heavy platforms involving third-party APIs, webhooks, data synchronization, and identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO).
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and security.
• Experience handling sensitive data and building systems where privacy, security, and compliance are architectural requirements.
• Demonstrated success delivering 0-to-1 products or major platform initiatives in environments with significant ambiguity.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority.

Domain Experience We Value

• Real-time, high-reliability, or operationally critical systems.
• Distributed, event-driven, or edge-to-cloud architectures.
• IoT platforms, connected devices, device fleet management, or hardware integrations.
• Software platforms that interact with physical devices, kiosks, peripherals, sensors, or other endpoint technologies.
• Physical security, operational technology, critical infrastructure, or other environments where reliability and resilience are essential.
• Large-scale distributed systems that integrate with numerous third-party platforms and external systems.

What We Offer

• Competitive pay, complete health insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee equity plan.
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and a paid year-end holiday break.
• A robust catalog of benefits that support your professional growth and personal wellbeing, including work from home funds, fertility & adoption reimbursement, and more...