Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable IoT Backend

Litter-Robot; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401K match

Paid time off

Pet-friendly office

On-site gym

Job summary

Whisker, a leading pet-tech company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to design, build, and operate the shared backend and telemetry pipelines that support a fleet of connected devices. You will own reliability, drive migration efforts, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-native AWS expertise, agentic development workflows, and collaboration with data teams to ensure data quality and cost efficiency across platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years backend development experience
• Experience architecting systems in AWS
• Experience with CI/CD and infrastructure as code

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and operates shared backend services and platform capabilities
• Owns service reliability end to end including on-call and incident response
• Builds high-volume device telemetry ingestion pipelines for analytics
• Mentors engineers and raises the team's capability
• Drives security, observability, and code quality best practices

Skills

Backend development

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Mentoring

On-call experience

Observability

System design

Education

BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)

Databricks

Kinesis

AI agent tooling

Job description

Whisker, a leading pet-tech company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to design, build, and operate the shared backend and telemetry pipelines that support a fleet of connected devices. You will own reliability, drive migration efforts, and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, AI-enabled environment.

The role emphasizes cloud-native AWS expertise, agentic development workflows, and collaboration with data teams to ensure data quality and cost efficiency across platforms.