Senior Backend Engineer - Device Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Vision/Dental coverage

HSA/FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Professional development stipend

Wellness programs

Daily lunches

Commuter benefits

Job summary

the company is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to own scalable backend services and the IoT platform. You will help design and ship core features, including provisioning, OTA firmware, and licensing, while maintaining high reliability for millions of devices.

We value cross-team collaboration, clear communication, and mentorship as we scale our platform for enterprise use. This role requires onsite presence five days a week in the United States.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience at scale.
• Proficient in Python or Go; Node.js experience is a plus.
• Strong in system design and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect, ship, and mentor on backend platform features.
• Lead platform components across provisioning, OTA, and licensing.
• Improve operational robustness and reduce pager noise.
• Collaborate with other teams to align technical direction and roadmaps.
• Provide clear design and code reviews and mentorship.

Skills

Backend services

Python

Go

Node.js

System design

Observability

Job description

Who We Are

the company is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and the company is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million the company devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

The Device Platform team owns the backend between the company's cloud and the hardware we ship — device provisioning, OTA firmware rollout, and the licensing layer that turns devices into a business. the company already operates at millions of devices, and we're scaling the platform for the next order of magnitude — with the consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees our enterprise customers depend on.

Hitting that scale isn't just a technical problem. We're creating the IoT core that every product team across the company relies on to accelerate their roadmaps. We do as much cross-team alignment as deep systems design, and hold a high bar on both execution and communication with our peers.

We're five senior engineers today, with a new-grad joining us this summer — and we're hiring more as the platform's reach across the company grows. We're high-trust and inclusive: we give and receive feedback directly, we learn out loud, and we get better together because of it.

What You'll Do

• Senior engineers on this team architect, ship, and bring others along. We learn and teach as we build.

• Design and lead major platform features end-to-end, such as the IoT core, the device-metrics platform, or the licensing ledger.

• Lead operational improvements that increase system robustness, reduce pager noise, and help the team learn from incidents when they occur.

• Teach as you ship — through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written communication, and direct mentorship.

• Listen to other the company teams, and help drive the platform's roadmap toward the company's biggest long-term bets.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience building backend services with consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees at scale.

• Fluency in at least one server language — Python or Go preferred; adjacent languages like Ruby or JavaScript (NodeJs) welcome.

• Skilled at listening to other engineering teams, shaping shared technical direction, and shipping changes they can build on without surprise.

• This role requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week.

US Employee Benefits

the company is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans

• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage

• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options

• Expanded mental health support

• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

• Professional development stipend

• Wellness/fitness benefits

• Healthy lunches provided daily

• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• This role does not offer visa sponsorship. the company sponsors for many other engineering roles — see open positions at https://www.the company.com/careers/

Annual Pay Range

At the company, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A the company employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$190,000—$275,000 USD

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