Senior Staff Software Engineer

Alarm.com • Tysons, VA

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Platform Team
Do you love tinkering with devices? Have you automated your own home? Do you love to mentor and collaborate with other engineers?
If the above holds true for you, then we would love to talk to you! Alarm.com is looking for a versatile Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team. We’re doing work in smart home technology, video analytics, large scale data processing, and much more. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a variety of technology domains and own projects from design to deployment. In particular, we are looking for somebody who will be an expert on our core platform systems, contributes to the reliability of our production environment, and is able to mentor a small team of engineers.
We have a growing engineering department and we’re looking for people that are excited to mentor and collaborate with more junior engineers. You will own projects and you must be able to communicate effectively and blend multiple business needs in your work.
WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM?
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you'll work collaboratively within our Platform and Operations teams to drive technical discovery, design, and implementation of large-scale applications, products, and platforms. You'll work cross-functionally to identify short-term and long-term solutions and timelines, review and approve proposed solutions, and provide pertinent documentation, direction, and examples to your team.
Very few small companies innovate and develop across such a broad range of technologies as Alarm.com. This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a small, friendly company culture where one can work closely with smart and highly productive people. Getting to work with cutting edge software and hardware to develop outstanding consumer products is the icing on the cake.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience leading and/or mentoring other engineers with a proven track record of developing people and solutions that are reusable by other engineers
• Proven expertise in object-oriented programming skills; C# and .NET experience a plus
• Software architecture experience
• Experience with production support (SRE experience also a plus)
• Extensive observability experience (Datadog, Grafana, Wavefront, etc) as well as runbook support
• Significant database design and development experience (SQL server a plus, as well as cloud database technologies)
• Capacity planning experience (ideally both in terms of physical as well as cloud infrastructure)
• Superior analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
• Ability to perform in a team environment
• Independent thinker and problem solver
• Expertise in object-oriented design and software lifecycles

Responsibilities

• Mentor groups of junior, senior, and lead engineers
• Develop software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies
• Lead design of major software components, systems, and features – act as an architect for the platform team
• Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging problems and optimize engineering solutions
• Work closely with product owners and business stakeholders to execute strategies and roadmaps
• Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration
• Become an expert on system architecture, functionality, and data flows as well as operations processes and tools
• Help support our core systems in production, including deployment and on-call support
• Assist in capacity planning, both in terms of cloud as well as physical capacity
• Assist in advising our database and overall data processing strategy
• Participate in on-call rotations, as well as deployment and maintenance windows as needed, working with our SRE team
• Provide support as subject matter expert for the technical and product domains
• Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly and when to build a robust solution. Your work will be used by multiple business units so you will need to consider many use cases when developing.
• Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work.
• The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match.
• We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave.
• To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level