Senior Software Engineer - Agent Team

Automox; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for Full-Time Employees

Health Plans with employer contribute

Disability & Life Insurance

Company HSA Contribution

Home office stipend

Job summary

Automox is a fully distributed company hiring remotely, with a cloud-native IT operations platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide. The role focuses on Go or Java services, microservices, and secure coding within a high-availability SaaS environment.

You will own end-to-end features from design to production, collaborate with Product and QE teams, and push for data-driven, scalable solutions across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Go or Java; we're a polyglot org and we value versatility across languages.
• Experience working as a Software Engineer on applications with continuous client connectivity.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and monitoring applications deployed in a high availability SaaS environment.
• Secure Coding experience such as experience with OWASP
• Experience building production applications in cloud environments (AWS) with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
• Experience working as a Software Engineer on applications with continuous client connectivity is desired.
• Enjoy scaling microservice architectures and large-scale event ingestion platforms. Have familiarity scaling websockets, real‑time messaging systems (Kafka, MQTT), and non‑relational database systems like DynamoDB, networking, DevOps.
• Excellent communicator, thrives within a tightly knit, cross‑functional remote team environment.
• Strong leadership skills coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.
• Impactful collaborator working with other engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers and Technical Support.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop, secure and solutions that facilitate communications with over 2 million Automox software agents deployed globally.
• Own significant features and services end to end, from technical design through release and operation in production, including the UI that surfaces them.
• Lead by example championing secure coding and modern software development best practices across engineering.
• Extend, enhance, and evolve event driven services to provide new and exciting features in the Automox platform and in our endpoint software.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by testing, performance tuning, refactoring, usability improvements, and automation.
• Produce detailed specifications, and contribute in all phases of the engineering lifecycle.
• Operate with a quality-first mindset. Your approach to testing sets you apart from your peers.
• Partner with Product, Program Management, QE, and Technical Support to turn ambiguous problems into well‑scoped, deliverable work.
• Make data‑driven decisions. You understand the impact of your development before it reaches production.

Skills

Go

Java

Tools

Kafka

MQTT

DynamoDB

Job description

Are you ready to own something big? Automox is turning IT admins into IT heroes by replacing traditional tools with our award winning cloud-native endpoint management platform. Our product works autonomously and so do our teams. We value a ‘one team’ mentality where everyone’s unique skills contribute to an environment that encourages collaboration and ownership. At Automox you’re enabled to do your best work, grow your career, and have an impact that will be noticeable. WE ARE A_TOMOX… all that’s missing is U!

OUR TECH STACK (customize for role)

• Frontend Languages: TypeScript, Vue 3, Tauri (Rust)

OVERVIEW

Are you ready to own something big? Automox is turning IT admins into IT heroes by replacing traditional tools with our award‑winning cloud-native endpoint management platform, trusted by over 2,500 companies worldwide including NASA, Yale, Xerox, Allbirds, and UNICEF.

Our Engineering team builds products that autonomously manage endpoint configuration, security, and patching across Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. We value a \"one team\" mentality, empowering our engineers with autonomy, collaboration, and meaningful ownership of impactful solutions. At Automox, you’ll do your best work, grow your career, and see the direct impact of your contributions.WE ARE A_TOMOX… all that’s missing is U!

QUALIFICATIONS

You are a curious software developer who is dedicated to your craft and enjoy solving big problems; you write code that you are proud of and can hit the ground running with support from the team. You understand that SaaS software delivery necessitates innovation and speed of execution. You want to be a part of a creative and enterprising team with challenging problems to solve. You pride yourself in owning problems but don’t want to work in a vacuum to solve them. Collaborating with the team to come up with the best solution for your customer is what fuels your fire.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Research, design, develop, secure and solutions that facilitate communications with over 2 million Automox software agents deployed globally.
• Own significant features and services end to end, from technical design through release and operation in production, including the UI that surfaces them.
• Lead by example championing secure coding and modern software development best practices across engineering.
• Extend, enhance, and evolve event driven services to provide new and exciting features in the Automox platform and in our endpoint software.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by testing, performance tuning, refactoring, usability improvements, and automation.
• Produce detailed specifications, and contribute in all phases of the engineering lifecycle.
• Operate with a quality-first mindset. Your approach to testing sets you apart from your peers.
• Partner with Product, Program Management, QE, and Technical Support to turn ambiguous problems into well‑scoped, deliverable work.
• Make data‑driven decisions. You understand the impact of your development before it reaches production.

BACKGROUND & SKILLS REQUIRED

• Strong experience in Go or Java; we're a polyglot org and we value versatility across languages
• Experience working as a Software Engineer on applications with continuous client connectivity.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and monitoring applications deployed in a high availability SaaS environment.
• Secure Coding experience such as experience with OWASP
• Experience building production applications in cloud environments (AWS) with a strong emphasis on security best practices.
• Experience working as a Software Engineer on applications with continuous client connectivity is desired.
• Enjoy scaling microservice architectures and large-scale event ingestion platforms. Have familiarity scaling websockets, real‑time messaging systems (Kafka, MQTT), and non‑relational database systems like DynamoDB, networking, DevOps.
• Excellent communicator, thrives within a tightly knit, cross‑functional remote team environment.
• Strong leadership skills coaching and mentoring more junior engineers.
• Impactful collaborator working with other engineers, Product Managers, Program Managers and Technical Support.

NICE TO HAVE

Experience building desktop or cross-platform applications.

• Experience with software that runs on customer endpoints across macOS, Windows, or Linux (such as agents, installers, or system services).
• Experience writing automated end‑to‑end tests (Python, Playwright, or similar).

Compensation

$140,000 - $190,000 USD

LOCATION

We are a fully distributed company of remote employees.

***Note: We currently don't hire in California or New York metro***

ABOUT AUTOMOX

Automox is the cloud-native IT operations platform for modern organizations. Our award‑winning answer to modern IT operations and best‑in‑class results earned Automox four straight quarters of record growth. We are now trusted by more than 2,500 leading companies and MSPs worldwide, including NASA, Yale, Xerox, Allbirds, and Unicef. It makes it easy to keep every endpoint automatically configured, patched, and secured – anywhere in the world. The future of IT Operations is cloud‑native – and right now. Will you join us?

EMPLOYMENT AT AUTOMOX

• Must be able to pass a federal, state, county background check
• Complete a local in‑person verification

TOTAL REWARDS: Thrive with Us

• Equity for Full-Time Employees
• Comprehensive Health Plans with generous employer contributions
• 100% Company‑paid Short Term/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Company HSA Contribution: $100-$200 per month based on tier

Happiness & Well-Being

• $500 Home office stipend
• Comprehensive Family Planning Covered on Meritian Medical Plan

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse company. Automox is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any legally protected status.

We are not able to sponsor work visas at this time.