3 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement secure, scalable IoT infrastructure and fleet-management backend systems.
- Improve cloud infrastructure covering API design, database schemas, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows.
- Build shared services for API gateways, caches, and schema upgrades.
- Develop data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms.
- Strengthen platform security and privacy, including user authentication.
- Design systems for high availability and geographic redundancy across global deployments.
- Ensure production readiness through automated testing, performance monitoring, and safe deployments.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decisions, hiring, engineering best practices, and team culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years building and scaling backend systems, including at least one full lifecycle experience managing remote devices.
- Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch.
- Strong experience with AWS, including Lambda, ECR/ECS, DynamoDB, S3, and IAM.
- Mastery of API design, schema design, and data exchange using REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and JSON-RPC.
- Excellent knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queueing systems such as Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS, and publish/subscribe patterns.
- Experience with authentication and authorization protocols including OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, and mTLS.
- Familiarity with IoT protocols including MQTT and CoAP, device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA and HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.
- Located in Silicon Valley.
Tech Stack
About ALSO
ALSO builds small, efficient electric vehicles for moving people and goods in dense urban settings, with options planned for both driver-operated and autonomous use. The privately held company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, was originally incubated within Rivian and follows a vertically integrated approach spanning vehicle hardware, software, and sensing, selling directly through demos, retail experiences, and community activations.