Distinguished Software Engineer

We’re a high-tech home security company that’s passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect.

We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.

We’re embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday – working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

Why are we hiring?

Well, we’re growing and thriving. So, we need smart, talented, and humble people who share our values to join us as we disrupt the home security space and relentlessly pursue our mission of keeping Every Home Secure.

What You'll Do

As an engineer on Simpli Safe's Video team you will build and maintain the cloud-based systems that empower customers to interact with their home security cameras from anywhere in the world.

We're looking for a motivated, experienced Distinguished Software Engineer to design, develop, maintain and own software solutions. We're a backend team solving large-scale video streaming and recording problems to ensure customers have real-time control and visibility into their cameras. You'll be working with our stack of Go, C#, Type Script, AWS, Kubernetes, SQS, SNS, ffmpeg, WebRTC.

The safety of our customers is important, and as such our key pillars are reliability, simplicity, and performance.

Primary

Responsibilities Include:

• Bring your wealth of video knowledge to build and improve Simpli Safe’s video services.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and design simple, reliable, flexible solutions.
• Drive the implementation of those solutions, both by writing code yourself and supporting other engineers with code reviews and mentoring.
• Long-term support & maintenance work, such as performance optimization, bug fixes, feature additions, design and usability improvements, and automation.
• Document the systems you are building to ensure they can be maintained by the next generation of developers.
• Serve as an on-call first responder for software owned by your team.

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of industry experience, including having owned the architecture of a production backend system end-to-end, from design through long-term operational ownership.
• 4+ years designing, building, or operating a real-time or low-latency video streaming service, e.g. HLS/DASH delivery
• Experience architecting cloud video storage systems at scale such as designing cost-efficient storage tiers, lifecycle and archival policies, and retention strategies that hold up across millions of recording devices.
• Experience designing metadata and indexing systems for video - enabling fast retrieval and scrubbing of recorded clips by camera, timestamp, or event across large-scale datasets.
• Deep expertise in the implementation of HLS/DASH, fragmented MP4 (fmp4), H.264, and AAC.
• Familiarity with video streaming standards such as adaptive bitrate packaging, video codecs (HEVC, AV1), and transport protocols (SRT, RTMP, WHIP, MoQ).
• Experience with technologies such as WebRTC, GStreamer, ffmpeg, or libav.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decision-making within a team.
• Passion, curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and grow.
• Extensive experience…