Senior Software Engineer - Agent Team

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for Full-Time Employees

401K Match

Flexible PTO

Health plans with employer contribs

Home office stipend

Job summary

Automox is a fully distributed, remote-first company seeking a senior software engineer to own end-to-end features across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints. You will work with Go/Java and TypeScript, shaping secure, scalable SaaS applications in a polyglot stack, including AWS cloud deployments.

Join a collaborative, cross-functional team that values autonomy and ownership, delivering impactful solutions across a global customer base, while enjoying a comprehensive rewards program.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, developing, testing in a high availability SaaS environment.
• Go or Java experience.
• Experience with AWS cloud deployments and security practices.
• Secure coding practices (OWASP).

Responsibilities

• Research, design, develop, secure and scale services handling communications with >2M Automox agents.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production release and operation, including UI surfaces.
• Lead by example, promoting secure coding and modern software practices across engineering.
• Extend and evolve event-driven services for new platform features and endpoint software.
• Improve through testing, performance tuning, refactoring, usability improvements, and automation.
• Produce detailed specifications and contribute across engineering lifecycle.

Skills

Go/Java

Cloud (AWS)

TypeScript frontend

Websockets & Kafka

Secure coding (OWASP)

Strong communicator

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Kafka

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

S3

Vue 3

Tauri

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

• Backend Languages: Go, TypeScript, Java, PHP
• Frontend Languages: TypeScript, Vue 3, Tauri (Rust)
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Databases/Data Tools: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, S3

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.
• Professional experience shipping frontend features in a modern JavaScript framework using TypeScript. You don't need to be a UI specialist, but you should be comfortable owning the UI half of a feature you built the backend for.
• 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).

The salary range listed is the base pay range for this position. In addition, the total compensation package includes bonus, equity and benefits. Actual earnings may be less or more depending on a candidate's direct experience, skills, industry knowledge, and location.

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

• Competitive Salary
• Equity for Full-Time Employees
• 401K Match
• Flexible PTO, generous sick time policy

Health & Wellness

• 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

• $25 per month Lifestyle Spending Account
• Internet Reimbursement - $50/month
• $500 Home office stipend
• $10k Adoption Benefit
• 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.