Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Cloud & IoT Platform

NRG; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 153,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus (AIP)

Comprehensive health benefits

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible time off

Job summary

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, is expanding its Seattle engineering presence to build the next generation of the platform infrastructure. You will design and operate systems powering real-time smart home experiences across cloud services, APIs, and IoT integrations.

This high-ownership, high-impact role offers ownership from design through production, collaboration with mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams, and opportunities to influence architecture and technical culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems (Senior to Staff level).
• BS in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• Strong experience in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-scale cloud services and APIs used by mobile apps, cameras, and smart home devices.
• Own systems end-to-end: design, deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Contribute to and lead architecture discussions for new platform capabilities.
• Build systems that are secure, resilient, and low-latency in a distributed environment.
• Develop event-driven systems and integrations across IoT, backend services, and mobile platforms.
• Mentor engineers and raise the overall engineering bar.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

REST APIs

gRPC APIs

Cloud-native tooling

CI/CD

Containers

Orchestration

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Vivint Smart Home, an NRG-owned company, is expanding its Seattle engineering presence to build the next generation of the platform infrastructure. You will design and operate systems powering real-time smart home experiences across cloud services, APIs, and IoT integrations.

This high-ownership, high-impact role offers ownership from design through production, collaboration with mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams, and opportunities to influence architecture and technical culture.