Senior Backend Engineer – Device Cloud APIs & AI-Driven Infra

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental plans

401k with company match

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Brivo in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain Python/API services for our cloud video platform. You will own gateway-scale REST APIs and legacy video-storage services using Django/DRF, async Python, PostgreSQL, and our Kubernetes platform.

You will solve distributed-systems challenges and mentor teammates, while leveraging AI tooling to accelerate implementation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with senior ownership of complex production systems.
• Deep experience building Python REST APIs with Django/Django REST Framework.
• 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

Django/Django REST Framework

Async Python

Distributed systems

Mentoring

PostgreSQL

Tools

Django REST Framework

asyncio

aiohttp

httpx

PostgreSQL

Job description

Brivo in Austin, TX, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, develop, and maintain Python/API services for our cloud video platform. You will own gateway-scale REST APIs and legacy video-storage services using Django/DRF, async Python, PostgreSQL, and our Kubernetes platform.

You will solve distributed-systems challenges and mentor teammates, while leveraging AI tooling to accelerate implementation.