Engineer III, Software - CalAmp

Cal Amp builds the connected intelligence behind how the world tracks, monitors, and recovers the assets that matter - from commercial fleets to high-value cargo, in real time,  a Software Engineer III on our backend team, you won't be maintaining a legacy monolith - you'll be designing and operating the distributed services that process high volume and live data from hundreds of thousands of connected devices.

If you like solving real concurrency, scale, and reliability problems - not just CRUD APIs - this is that kind of role. We invest in engineers who bring value: strong performers on this team have real room to grow into more senior scope.

This role is based in Carlsbad, CA, with a hybrid schedule.

Cal Amp is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that are reliable, observable, and built to scale
• Own features end-to-end: from design discussions through deployment and post-launch monitoring
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in distributed, production systems - including on-call/incident response rotations
• Identify performance bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements in latency, throughput, and reliability
• Shape technical decisions through architecture reviews and code reviews with architects and senior engineers
• Partner directly with product and business teams to turn requirements into technical designs
• Help evolve our engineering practices - tooling, observability, CI/CD - as we modernize our stack

• 4-7 years of professional backend software engineering experience in production environments
• Strong CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis
• Deep proficiency in Java, including experience with RESTful and event-driven microservices
• Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed, scalable services in production
• Experience with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases, and with AWS core services (EC2/Lambda, S3, messaging)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Demonstrated experience debugging and supporting live production systems (monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis)
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can explain tradeoffs to both engineers and non-engineers