Senior Edge Platform Engineer

Orange Barrel Media • Columbus, OH

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About The Position

We're hiring a senior engineer to lead the edge platform behind our kiosk fleet, the Linux/Python stack that runs on every device in the field, the cloud IoT services it talks to, and the tooling that keeps it healthy. The platform is built and in production. Your job is to harden it, secure it, and grow it, not to rewrite it. This is a player-coach role. You'll spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, but you'll also directly manage one engineer, including 1:1s, goals, feedback, and career growth. If you want to be a pure IC or a pure manager, this isn't the right fit. If you've been doing both and want the title to match, keep reading.

Requirements

• Python at the systems level (async, systemd, MQTT, event loops)
• Snap packaging and modern Ubuntu LTS
• Wayland-based kiosk display stacks
• AWS IoT Core in production, not just familiarity with it
• A modern configuration management tool for fleet rollouts
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Linux edge and device fundamentals, with a real understanding of what is happening on the box
• Senior enough to review a peer’s edge code in your first week without hesitation

Nice To Haves

• Cellular edge routers and their SDKs
• IP camera / NVR integration (RTSP, ONVIF)
• Prometheus-family observability tooling
• Exposure to adjacent stack: Rails (light read-and-extend work on a couple of internal apps), Electron (adapter-level maintenance only), serverless functions, internal package distribution

Responsibilities

• The edge runtime: Python services on Ubuntu, packaged as snaps, talking to AWS IoT Core over MQTT, with async, systemd, and event-loop work
• The display stack: Wayland-based kiosk sessions on real hardware in the wild
• Fleet operations, including configuration management rollouts, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and the observability work that lets us catch issues before sites do
• AWS IoT integration in depth, including devices, shadows, jobs, message routing, auth, and serverless triggers
• Multiple in-flight workstreams alongside steady reliability work, including packaging modernization and a fleet data-model refactor
• One direct report, including their growth, feedback loop, and career development
• Code review leadership, setting the bar for edge and IoT code from day one

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed