Staff Software Engineer - SRE

Alarm.com; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical care

Life insurance

Sports package

Annual budget for professional develop

Job summary

Alarm.com is building a new team in Krakow to maintain and scale live video streaming and IoT security services. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) to own reliability for core systems, drive capacity planning, and advance observability.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn reliability goals into practical outcomes. You will lead incident response, improve runbooks, and develop automation to boost engineering velocity while ensuring safety and resilience in

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production operations and on-call ownership.
• Proven track record of improving measurable reliability outcomes in distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in observability and production support practices.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability for core production systems, including deployments, on-call operations, and incident response.
• Drive capacity planning across cloud and physical infrastructure.
• Define and improve reliability goals and operational outcomes (availability, MTTR).
• Lead observability improvements across metrics, logs, traces, alert quality, and runbook maturity.
• Build automation and tooling to improve reliability and velocity.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align reliability priorities with roadmap goals.
• Shape database and data-processing reliability, including performance and safety.
• Apply engineering judgment balancing delivery speed with long-term resilience.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

Observability

Cloud

C# / .NET

On-call incident response

Communication

Post-incident improvements

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Envoy

Ingress controllers

Service mesh

OpenVPN

MQTT

Job description

EBS Sp. z o.o. is a dynamically growing Polish technology company with over 35 years of experience, specializing in the development of smart security solutions. We are part of the American corporation Alarm.com (Nasdaq: ALRM), a leading global provider of intelligent security solutions.
Alarm.comvalues working together and collaborating in person.We are building a new team in Krakow.Our employees work fully from the office with the possibility to work remotely occasionally.Alarm.com is seeking a versatile Staff Software Engineer (SRE) to join our Video team. Our platform powers live streaming, recorded video, and real-time object detection and identification notifications for millions of IoT cameras worldwide. In this role, you will help keep the platform reliable at scale, advance observability, reduce incident response time, and build for long-term growth.
You will join a collaborative team that cares deeply about reliability, customer experience, and engineering quality. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems, improving how teams detect and respond to issues, and building operational patterns that scale. You will work across software, infrastructure, and data flows, partnering with product and engineering teams to turn reliability goals into practical outcomes.
Day-to-day Responsibilities

• Own reliability for core production systems, including deployments, on-call operations, and incident response.
• Drive capacity planning across cloud and physical infrastructure.
• Define and improve reliability goals and operational outcomes (for example availability and MTTR).
• Lead observability improvements across metrics, logs, traces, alert quality, and runbook maturity.
• Build automation and tooling that improve reliability and engineering velocity.
• Partner with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align reliability priorities with roadmap goals.
• Shape database and data-processing reliability, including performance and operational safety.
• Apply sound engineering judgment to balance delivery speed with long-term resilience.
• Other duties as assigned

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production operations and on-call ownership.
• Proven track record of improving measurable reliability outcomes in distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in observability and production support practices.
• Strong networking fundamentals for distributed systems, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and L4/L7 behavior.
• Strong experience with distributed systems technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and Redis.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and operations at scale; Azure experience is a plus.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in object-oriented design and software development lifecycle practices; C# and .NET experience is a plus.
• Strong analytical, communication, and decision-making skills under production pressure.
• Experience leading high-severity incident response and driving durable post-incident improvements is a plus.
• Strong database and data-processing experience, including performance tuning, schema evolution, and rollback-safe deployment practices, is a plus.
• Deep experience with advanced traffic management and troubleshooting in production (for example Envoy, ingress controllers, service mesh, global load balancing, and cross-region routing) is a plus.
• Experience with video streaming systems, WebRTC, IoT device ecosystems, OpenVPN, and MQTT is a plus.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: We have a strong focus on teamwork, and we work to create a collaborative and welcoming environment that enables our teams to excel.
• Make an immediate impact: You can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You will be empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Be Empowered: We don\'t want to micro-manage you. We want you to own stuff and bring your experience to make those products the best in class.
• Long-term employment based on a permanent employment contract (CoE).
• Attractive benefits package: including medical care, life insurance, sports package, annual budget for professional development ($2,000).

Company Info
Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we\'re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. 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.
Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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