Senior Platform Architect & Engineering Mentor

Alarm; Tysons, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans with company subsidies

401(k) with employer match

Paid vacation & holidays

Job summary

Alarm.com is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for its Platform team in Tysons, VA. You will own projects from design to deployment, mentor diverse engineering groups, and drive architectural decisions across multiple domains including smart home tech and data processing.

You will collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders, lead major components, and help shape the platform's roadmap while balancing rapid delivery with robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience leading and/or mentoring other engineers with a track record of reusable solutions
• Proven expertise in object-oriented programming (C#/.NET a plus)
• Software architecture experience
• Experience with production support (SRE a plus)
• Observability experience (Datadog, Grafana, Wavefront) and runbook support
• Significant database design and development experience (SQL Server a plus, cloud DBs)
• Capacity planning experience (physical and cloud)
• Superior analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
• Ability to perform in a team environment
• Independent thinker and problem solver
• Expertise in object-oriented design and software lifecycles

Responsibilities

• Mentor groups of junior, senior, and lead engineers.
• Develop software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies.
• Lead design of major software components, systems, and features – act as an architect for the platform team.
• Engage in research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging problems.
• Work closely with product owners and business stakeholders to execute strategies and roadmaps.
• Work hard and be flexible: quick development cycles and cross-team collaboration.
• Become an expert on system architecture, functionality, data flows, and operations processes.
• Support core systems in production, including deployment and on-call support.
• Assist in capacity planning for cloud and physical capacity.
• Assist in advising our database and data processing strategy.
• Participate in on-call rotations, deployments, and maintenance windows.
• Provide subject matter expertise for technical and product domains.
• Exercise good judgment; balance speed and robust solutions.
• Contribute ideas for product development beyond specs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Mentoring engineering teams

Software architecture

Object-oriented programming (C# / .NET

Observability tooling

Production support / SRE

Capacity planning

Analytical problem-solving

Team collaboration

Independent thinker

Software lifecycle & design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Datadog

Grafana

Wavefront

SQL Server / Cloud databases

Job description

Alarm.com is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for its Platform team in Tysons, VA. You will own projects from design to deployment, mentor diverse engineering groups, and drive architectural decisions across multiple domains including smart home tech and data processing.

You will collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders, lead major components, and help shape the platform's roadmap while balancing rapid delivery with robust, scalable solutions.