Remote Senior Software Engineer, School Safety Platform

GoGuardian

United States

Remote

USD 190,000 - 220,000

Full time

14 days+
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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

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