Remote Senior Software Engineer, School Safety Platform

GoGuardian; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Equity plan

Flexible time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Year-end break

Job summary

GoGuardian is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help define and build category-defining school safety products. You’ll lead architecture, design, and implementation across cloud platforms, large-scale distributed systems, and real-time integrations with devices and data sources.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering leaders to shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence in a fast-growing, mission-driven company focused on safe, effective

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• Proven end-to-end backend or full-stack delivery.
• Experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native apps.
• Experience with third-party integrations and identity systems.
• Strong fundamentals in design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, security.
• Experience handling sensitive data with privacy and compliance needs.
• Ability to influence tech direction and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems for real-world environments.
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, devices, and data sources.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and shape the technical culture.
• Make thoughtful technology decisions balancing impact, complexity, speed, and maintainability.

Skills

8+ yrs exp

End-to-end systems

Distributed systems

APIs & event-driven

OAuth/SAML/SSO

Observability

Security/privacy

Mentor engineers

Tools

GoGuardian tooling

Job description

GoGuardian is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help define and build category-defining school safety products. You’ll lead architecture, design, and implementation across cloud platforms, large-scale distributed systems, and real-time integrations with devices and data sources.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering leaders to shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence in a fast-growing, mission-driven company focused on safe, effective