Hiring: Senior Manager of Engineering Company: Brilliant Smart Home Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:24:32 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Firmware, Grafana, GraphQL, IAM, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, LLM, Linux, Packer, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Python, REST, RESTful, Redis, Shell, Terraform, VPC, gRPC About the job Experience: •8+ years experience; 2 years managing teams) •8+ years of experience in backend engineering; with at least 2 years of engineering team management •At least 2 years of engineering team management Required Skills: •Leadership & Management •Lead a team of 6 engineers (FTE + Contract). •Estimate work efforts, collaborate on requirements, and plan dev sprints in coordination with Product leadership. •Participate in the strategic direction of the company in collaboration with the rest of the Senior Leadership team. •Architect, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend features and services. •Design and extend GraphQL and RESTful APIs for Python-based services. •Develop and maintain gRPC backends and integrations with Redis and PostgreSQL. •Support communication and backend integrations for our fleet of Brilliant Controls (IoT). Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. •Deep experience with Python, modern programming languages, and shell scripting. •Strong expertise with AWS and core cloud infrastructure services. •Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). •Strong background in Linux systems. •Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and caching systems (Redis). •Background with gRPC, distributed systems. •Excellent communication skills and experience leading technical initiatives. •Strong interest and hands-on experimentation with LLMs or AI agents. •Background with real-time data communication. Compensation: •$160,000 - $190,000 / year •$160,000 -$190,000/Year + Equity + Subsidized Benefits Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!