Senior Backend Engineer; Device Cloud Platform

Compensation: $180,000 - $200,000 / year

Location: Austin

Compensation: $180,000 - $200,000 / year

The Senior Backend Engineer on the Devices Cloud Platform team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining backend services and platform capabilities that support a global cloud video platform. The position provides senior-level ownership of critical systems supporting reliable communication, deployment, and operation of services across a distributed, multi-region environment. The role combines hands-on Go development with cloud-native platform engineering, spanning backend services, Kubernetes, networking, distributed systems, and production reliability.

These systems also support the distribution of settings and configuration to edge devices, directly enabling customer-facing capabilities and helping solve real-world customer needs. The position contributes to platform architecture and engineering practices with a focus on building reliable, scalable systems that have a direct impact on both the product and the business.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and shared platform components that support customer-facing products and capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, testing, automation, documentation, and overall engineering quality.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, distributed-state, and production reliability issues across device-edge and cloud services, including SSH and reverse-tunnel workflows.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, provide technical guidance and mentorship, and contribute to architecture and development practices that improve the scalability and maintainability of the platform.

• 5-10 years of relevant software or cloud engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of complex production systems;
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Go expertise, emphasis on concurrency, systems programming, and production HTTP services
• Strong networking and distributed-systems fundamentals, including SSH protocol concepts, reverse tunneling, network security, and state coordination using technologies such as etcd and Redis.
• Experience with containerized CI/CD environments, production observability, and disciplined automated testing; comfortable working across languages and reading Python/Django code when needed, and able to use AI coding tools productively while critically validating generated work.

Brivo is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and the global leader in cloud-based access control and video surveillance. Following our merger with Eagle Eye Networks, we are building the only platform powerful enough to support the future of AI-driven security.

Why Your Work Matters

• The Brivo
  
  Experience:
  
  We thrive on in-person collaboration and a "one-team" atmosphere. We embrace our international presence, leveraging diverse ideas and backgrounds to improve our culture and our products. To keep our global teams connected and inspired, we provide a premium onsite experience featuring communal meals, recurring social events, and fully stocked work spaces—ensuring you have everything you need to stay focused while building the future of security.
• Total Rewards:
  We support our people with competitive medical, vision, and dental plans (including company-offset premiums), a 401k with company match, and an unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) policy that empowers you to take the time you need to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

The compensation for this full time salaried role ranges between $180,000-$200,000. Individual compensation packages are based on job-related skills, experience,…