4 days ago
Pleasant Grove, UT, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the Device Platform’s technical architecture and roadmap across device connectivity, cloud APIs, and smart-home integrations.
- Own the availability, scalability, performance, incident response, and long-term reliability of device-control systems.
- Lead technical design reviews, author design documents, and remain hands-on in the code for complex, high-impact systems.
- Mentor engineers, establish standards for code quality, testing, and documentation, and influence architecture beyond the team.
- Partner with Product, Firmware, Mobile, and SRE to translate business goals into technical plans.
- Guide deployment, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, tracing, and operational practices on AWS.
- Make cost, speed, and quality tradeoffs as the device fleet scales.
- Serve as an escalation point for production incidents and lead root-cause analysis.
- Interview candidates, help shape team growth, and lead special projects.
Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience leading technical direction for distributed systems or platform teams.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, highly available production systems.
- Deep, hands-on AWS experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with Go, Elixir, or TypeScript and the ability to work in a polyglot environment are pluses.
- Experience managing infrastructure with Terraform, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry is a plus.
- Experience with IoT or real-time messaging such as MQTT is a plus.
- Ability to mentor engineers, influence without authority, and communicate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position with office, remote, or hybrid work options.
- Equal employment opportunities and an inclusive, collaborative culture.
- Background check required for all candidates.
About Pura
Pura builds an app-controlled home fragrance system, including a smart diffuser and interchangeable scent vials, for consumers. It sells devices and recurring fragrance refills online and via subscriptions, and partners with brands such as Disney and Anthropologie. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah, the company is privately held.