Senior Cloud IoT Software Engineer

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Engineer, Backend / Cloud to help design, build, and scale the Infinity platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who is strong in cloud-native backend systems, Kubernetes-based runtime environments, and IoT-connected architectures, and who can operate effectively at the center of multiple product experiences.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role. The engineer in this position will be expected to lead technical execution in complex areas, strengthen platform reliability and observability, and act as a key daytime escalation point during U.S. business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native backend services that support residential applications, device integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Develop scalable APIs, asynchronous workflows, and service integrations using modern backend technologies.
• Contribute to architecture decisions across microservices, event-driven systems, Kubernetes-based runtime environments, and cloud infrastructure.
• Support and improve device-to-cloud flows involving AWS IoT Core and related platform services.
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness across the Infinity platform.
• Partner with mobile, web, product, QA, and platform teams to enable high-quality end-to-end delivery.
• Troubleshoot production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and help implement durable fixes and long-term remediation.
• Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, release engineering, and secure software delivery practices.
• Identify technical risks early and help shape implementation plans and proof-of-concepts for new capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a Hard Science (Physical, Life, or Applied Science).
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years building backend or cloud-native systems in production.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud IoT Services (AWS, Azure, GCP IoT) and IaC tooling (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with IoT, telemetry, edge-to-cloud integrations, or device command and state workflows.
• Experience with API gateways, backend-for-frontend patterns, or service mesh-based architectures.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming technologies.
• Familiarity with observability tooling, incident response, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude, Kiro, or similar tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, and delivery.
• Experience working in multi-team platform environments serving both internal and external consumers.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization patterns for cloud-native systems.

Requirements

• Role will operate on EST Hours (8am-5pm).

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $96,000.00 - $192,000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
• Retirement Benefits
• Time off and Leave:
  • Paid vacation days, up to 15 days
  • Paid sick days, up to 5 days
  • Paid personal leave, up to 5 days
  • Paid holidays, up to 13 days
  • Birth and adoption leave
  • Parental leave
  • Family and medical leave
  • Bereavement leave
  • Jury duty leave
  • Military leave
  • Purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance