Senior Backend Cloud Engineer

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

Are you passionate about building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems? Do you want to contribute to a team that is shaping the future of smart buildings and reducing carbon footprints? Join our team! We are looking for a Backend Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in cloud-native development and modern backend technologies.

You’ll be shaping the future by working on Facilities—our cloud and edge platform that powers three transformative modules:
Organize to simplify deployment and maintenance workflows, Operate to deliver real-time building insights and seamless interaction, and Optimize to uncover inefficiencies and drive peak performance for truly intelligent spaces.

• Lead and mentor a local team of developers, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with global engineering standards.
• Act as the technical reference for architecture decisions, design reviews, and best practices.
• Design and develop cloud-based SaaS applications emphasizing scalability, security, reliability, and performance.
• Integrate IoT devices with cloud platforms (telemetry ingestion, device management, OTA updates).
• Champion CI/CD and Dev Ops practices to optimize delivery pipelines and reduce lead time to production.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple locations (Product, QA, Security, Ops) to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and drive continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend/cloud development.
• Strong proficiency in C#, .NET (Core/6+) and/or Java, and API design principles.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure services (AKS, App Services, Functions, Event Hub, Service Bus, Key Vault).
• Solid understanding of microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Entity Framework and relational databases (SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL, or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment automation (ArgoCD, Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub Actions).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep or ARM) and Git Ops workflows.

• Familiarity with IoT data ingestion, device management, and edge-to-cloud integration.
• Experience designing event‑driven architectures and asynchronous messaging patterns.
• Working knowledge of No
  
  SQL databases (Cosmos DB, Redis) and distributed caching.
• Observability practices and tools (Azure Monitor, logging/metrics/tracing).
• Cloud security best practices (OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit).
• Performance tuning and cost optimization for large‑scale SaaS workloads.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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