Senior Backend Engineer: Cloud API for Video IoT (Austin)

Brivo, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Brivo, Inc. in Austin is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain Python/API services that power our cloud video platform.

You will own gateway-scale REST APIs and legacy video-storage services, working across Django/DRF, async Python, PostgreSQL, and our bare-metal Kubernetes platform. The role requires a senior engineer who can solve distributed-systems challenges, improve production services, and collaborate across application, database, and infrastructure teams,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant software engineering experience with senior ownership of complex production systems.
• Deep experience building Python REST APIs with Django/Django REST Framework and asynchronous Python technologies.
• Comfortable with database design, global replication, and performance tuning.
• 5+ years large-scale remote IoT device management and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain high-scale Python REST API services, including gateway services with extensive asynchronous communication to downstream systems.
• Take substantial ownership of critical API, including ongoing development, production reliability, and modernization.
• Build and maintain asynchronous Python services using Django/DRF, asyncio, aiohttp, and httpx, with strong API design, authentication, validation, and testing practices.
• Aggressively monitor and maintain performance metrics across globally distributed system.
• Independently diagnose complex cross-service issues, collaborate with senior engineers and QA, contribute technical guidance and mentoring.
• Leverage AI coding tools effectively while critically reviewing generated changes

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Asynchronous programming

Mentoring

Tools

Django

DRF

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

aiohttp

httpx

asyncio

Job description

Brivo, Inc. in Austin is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain Python/API services that power our cloud video platform.

You will own gateway-scale REST APIs and legacy video-storage services, working across Django/DRF, async Python, PostgreSQL, and our bare-metal Kubernetes platform. The role requires a senior engineer who can solve distributed-systems challenges, improve production services, and collaborate across application, database, and infrastructure teams,