Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer – Real-Time, Large-Scale

Nrg Bluewater Wind; Washington; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible time off

Performance bonus (AIP)

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home is building a Seattle-based platform infrastructure team that designs and operates high-scale cloud services, event pipelines, and IoT integrations powering real-time smart-home experiences.

The Senior Software Engineer will drive architecture, ownership, and performance improvements across distributed systems, APIs, and operations while mentoring engineers and shaping technical culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems (Senior → Staff level acceptable).
• B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Strong experience in backend languages (Go, Python) and distributed systems design.
• Experience with REST and/or gRPC APIs and cloud-native tooling (containers, orchestration, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Design and operate high-scale cloud services and APIs powering real-time experiences.
• Own systems end-to-end: design, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Contribute to architecture discussions for platform capabilities.
• Build secure, resilient, low-latency distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar.

Skills

Go / Python

Distributed systems design

REST and gRPC APIs

Cloud-native tooling

Ownership & execution

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

MongoDB / NoSQL

Job description

Vivint Smart Home is building a Seattle-based platform infrastructure team that designs and operates high-scale cloud services, event pipelines, and IoT integrations powering real-time smart-home experiences.

The Senior Software Engineer will drive architecture, ownership, and performance improvements across distributed systems, APIs, and operations while mentoring engineers and shaping technical culture.