Base Salary
$144k - $169k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own technical direction for complex initiatives across device APIs, event pipelines, device lifecycle management, transport infrastructure, and partner-facing platform capabilities.
- Lead architectural design and produce design documents covering tradeoffs, constraints, service boundaries, and long-term implications.
- Define and evolve shared platform patterns, API contracts, event schemas, frameworks, libraries, and reusable components adopted by multiple teams.
- Lead autonomous end-to-end delivery of large, multi-engineer initiatives from design through implementation, validation, and production readiness.
- Improve team effectiveness through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, mentoring, and technical coaching.
- Drive cross-team technical alignment and represent platform interests in councils, working groups, design reviews, and dependency discussions.
- Establish production-readiness, observability, reliability, SLA, monitoring, and support standards and contribute to incident response and postmortems.
- Use and promote AI-assisted development tools while rigorously validating generated code for correctness, security, edge cases, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of backend software engineering experience with demonstrated Staff-level scope and impact.
- Experience leading large, multi-engineer technical initiatives from architecture through delivery with substantial autonomy.
- Experience creating reusable platform patterns, shared libraries, or integration frameworks adopted by other engineers.
- Strong architectural judgment concerning service boundaries, domain ownership, failure modes, versioning, and maintainability.
- Deep backend platform engineering proficiency with RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architectures such as Kafka, and shared platform design.
- Experience moving from tightly coupled systems toward domain-aligned, independently deployable services.
- Ability to anticipate medium-term technical problems and proactively drive solutions.
- Track record of influencing experienced engineers through technical councils, working groups, and cross-team design reviews.
- Ability to collaborate credibly with architects and engineering managers on complex cross-team initiatives.
- Positive buy-in toward AI-assisted development and practical familiarity with AI-supported implementation, debugging, and documentation workflows.
- Preferred: strong .NET/C# and SQL Server experience; partner-facing APIs or integration platforms; Kafka or similar event streaming; device, IoT, or lifecycle-management systems; microservice or domain-aligned architecture; observability, incident management, and production operations; GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code; Model Context Protocol; and department-wide technical standards or architecture decision records.
Benefits
- Medical plans with company subsidies and a company-contributed Health Savings Account.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave.
- Company-paid disability and life insurance.
- Collaborative and casual work environment.
- Employees work from the office 4 days a week.
Tech Stack
About Alarm.com
Alarm.com is the leading platform for the intelligently connected property. Millions of people depend on Alarm.com's technology to monitor and control their property from anywhere. Centered on security and remote monitoring, our platform addresses a wide range of market needs and enables application-based control for a growing variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Our security, video monitoring, intelligent automation and energy management solutions are available through our network of thousands of professional service providers in North America and around the globe. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com earned the Top Workplace™ award for its employee culture and the meaningful work we do every day to develop and bring to market new technology that will make millions of people safer and help them use energy more efficiently. We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.