{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bd2c89634f280de5eeff66af","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bd2c89634f280de5eeff66af","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bd2c89634f280de5eeff66af","title":"Sr Software Engineer, Platform","description":"Welcome to the intersection of energy and home services. At NRG, we’re driven by our passion to create a smarter, cleaner and more connected future.\nVivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. We find purpose in proactively protecting and keeping our customers connected to home, no matter where they are. Join the Smart Home team to create smarter, safer and more sustainable homes.\nSenior Software Engineer – Platform Infrastructure\nWho We Are\nVivint Smart Home is redefining the future of home automation and security at massive scale. With millions of connected devices and customers across North America, we operate one of the largest IoT platforms in the industry - powering real-time experiences that matter in our customers’ homes every day.\nWe’re building a new engineering presence in Seattle to accelerate innovation and raise the bar on platform engineering. This team will take on some of the hardest distributed systems and infrastructure challenges in the company.\nIf you’re excited by ownership and the opportunity to build systems that operate at scale in the real world, this is your chance to help shape both the technology and the culture from the ground up.\n\nThe Opportunity\nWe are hiring experienced engineers to help define and build the next generation of Vivint’s platform infrastructure.\nYou will design and operate systems that power real-time smart home experiences—spanning cloud services, event pipelines, APIs, and IoT integrations. Your work will directly impact millions of devices and customers.\nThis is a high-ownership, high-impact role where you’ll:\nBuild and scale distributed systems that handle large volumes of real-time events\nDrive architecture and technical direction, not just implementation\nImprove performance, reliability, and operability of core platform services\nCollaborate across mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams to deliver end-to-end experiences\nHelp establish engineering practices and technical culture for a growing Seattle team\n\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign and implement high-scale cloud services and APIs used by mobile apps, cameras, and smart home devices\nOwn systems end-to-end: design, deployment, observability, and production operations\nContribute to and lead architecture discussions for new platform capabilities\nBuild systems that are secure, resilient, and low-latency in a distributed environment\nDevelop event-driven systems and integrations across IoT, backend services, and mobile platforms\nMentor engineers and raise the overall engineering bar\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of experience building and operating production systems (we are open to Senior Staff level)\nB.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred\nStrong experience in Go, Python, or similar backend languages\nExperience designing distributed systems with scalability, availability, and performance in mind\nExperience building REST and/or gRPC APIs\nStrong problem-solving skills and a track record of ownership and execution\nExperience working with modern cloud-native tooling (containers, orchestration, CI/CD)\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, messaging systems)\nExperience with IoT systems or device communication protocols (e.g., MQTT)\nFamiliarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud infrastructure\nExperience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)\nExperience with video streaming and technologies (e.g. MP4, HLS, ffmpeg)\nExperience using AI-assisted development tools for engineering workflows\n\nWhat Makes This Role Different\nGreenfield team in Seattle – help define the culture, technical direction, and hiring bar\nMassive real-world scale – millions of connected devices generating continuous event streams\nFull ownership – from design through production\nCross-domain complexity – IoT + cloud + mobile + real-time systems\nInnovation-first culture – including programs like quarterly Innovation Week to explore new ideas\n\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive compensation\nPerformance bonus (AIP)\nComprehensive health benefits, 401(k), and wellness programs\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan\nFlexible time off\n\nWhy Join Us\nYou’ll work on systems that matter—where reliability, latency, and correctness directly affect people’s homes and safety. This is a chance to join at an inflection point, influence the architecture, and help build a high-caliber engineering hub.\n\nWe support the use of AI tools to help you prepare for your interview (e.g., practicing responses, researching the role, or refining your resume). However, during interviews and assessments, we expect responses to reflect your own thinking, experience, and communication. Use of AI to generate or read answers in real time, complete assessments, or misrepresent your qualifications is not permitted and may impact your candidacy.\nNRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. 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