Staff Software Engineer
Alarm.com•Tysons, VA
•$144,250 - $169,127•Hybrid
About The Position
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of IoT and smart automation protocols with a focus on Z‑Wave, Matter, PowerG, and ZigBee. You will own initiatives from design through deployment, mentor engineers, and clearly communicate an architectural vision that aligns devices, gateways, mobile apps, and cloud services. You will collaborate across Product, Firmware, Panels, and Operations to deliver secure, reliable, and interoperable experiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
- Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong object-oriented programming skills; C# a plus.
- Experience with database design and development.
- Experience with at least ONE modern IoT protocol: Matter, Z-Wave, Zigbee, a plus.
- Familiarity with a JavaScript framework like Ember, Angular, or React.
- Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Thread, BLE, Wi Fi, or cellular experience
- MQTT, HTTP, WebSockets, or gRPC, including QoS and session management
- Security across TLS, DTLS, key management, device identity, secure boot, and threat modeling
- Embedded and gateway experience with C or C++ on RTOS or Linux, and packet analysis with sniffers and spectrum tools
- High throughput telemetry ingestion and storage with schema versioning and compression
- Large scale rollout and OTA strategies, including staged deployments, rollback, and fleet health metrics
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate the protocol architecture for onboarding, secure transport, command and control, telemetry, and OTA updates across Z Wave, Matter, PowerG, and other IoT protocols.
- Drive discovery, design, and implementation, set near term and long-term plans, review solutions, and provide clear documentation and examples.
- Lead interoperability and certification, build gateway and cloud translation services, and deliver tools that enable partners.
- Raise reliability through observability, on call support, and capacity planning with operations.
- Assist with guiding the architectural direction of our Protocols domain
- Lead design of major components and systems for the Protocols team
- Mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns and best practices
- Assist with setting the Protocols roadmap and communicate tradeoffs and decisions to executives, partners, and cross functional teams
- Deliver robust implementations for Z Wave, Matter, PowerG, and ZigBee, including capability negotiation and backward compatibility
- Build gateway and cloud services that normalize device semantics with attention to latency, throughput, and cost
- Partner with Ops on deployments, on call rotations, incident response, and post incident reviews
- Guide data models and storage for protocol payloads and device state, and contribute concise architecture docs and runbooks
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- medical plans with company subsidies
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
- 401(k) with an employer match
- paid vacation that increases with tenure
- paid holidays
- wellness time
- paid maternity and bonding leave
- company-paid disability and life insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
