Senior Platform Engineer - Real-Time IoT & Cloud

Vivint; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Stock options

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible time off

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate the next generation of our platform infrastructure powering real-time experiences across cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and IoT integrations. You will own end-to-end systems and help drive architecture and performance.

This high-ownership role offers opportunities to influence technical direction while collaborating with mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams across a growing Seattle engineering hub.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Strong experience in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience designing distributed systems with scalability, availability, and performance in mind.
• Experience building REST and/or gRPC APIs.
• Experience with modern cloud-native tooling (containers, orchestration, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Design and operate high-scale cloud services and APIs.
• Own systems end-to-end: design, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Contribute to architecture discussions for new platform capabilities.
• Build secure, resilient, and low-latency distributed systems.
• Develop event-driven systems and IoT/backend/mobile integrations.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering bar.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

REST APIs

gRPC

Cloud-native tooling

CI/CD

Ownership

Problem solving

Education

B.S. in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

MongoDB

Kafka

MQTT

ffmpeg

Cloud platforms

Job description

Vivint Smart Home in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate the next generation of our platform infrastructure powering real-time experiences across cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and IoT integrations. You will own end-to-end systems and help drive architecture and performance.

This high-ownership role offers opportunities to influence technical direction while collaborating with mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams across a growing Seattle engineering hub.