Hiring: Staff Software Engineer Company: Alarm.com Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:43:56 Target Skills & Keywords : .NET, C#, Event-Driven, GitHub, Kafka, Microservices, PaaS, REST, RESTful, SQL Server, gRPC About the job Experience: •10+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of operating at Staff-level scope and impact. Required Skills: •Technical Leadership & Architecture •Own the technical direction for complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning device APIs and event pipelines, device lifecycle management, device transport and protocol infrastructure, and partner-facing platform capabilities. •Lead architectural design for medium-to-large initiatives, producing high-quality design documents that capture tradeoffs, constraints, and long-term implications — not just the chosen approach. •Define and evolve shared platform patterns, API contracts, and event schemas that are used by multiple teams across the department. •Anticipate medium-term architectural risks — 12+ months out — and work proactively to prevent them from negatively impacting the team or the platform. •Contribute to and influence department-wide technical standards, modernization guidance, and platform conventions — participating in tech councils, working groups, and cross-team design reviews as an active contributor, not a passive observer. •Lead delivery of foundational platform capabilities across the device ecosystem: device state and command APIs, device lifecycle management, event-driven pipelines, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform. •Build and evolve partner-facing platform components within SPX's Core Partner Platform: outbound command services, inbound event pipelines, authentication and authorization infrastructure, and integration patterns that scale across multiple partners. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. •Proven experience leading large, multi-engineer technical initiatives end-to-end — from architecture through delivery — with a high degree of autonomy and accountability for outcomes. •Demonstrated ability to define and evolve reusable platform patterns, shared libraries, or integration frameworks that are actually adopted and used by other engineers — not just built. •Strong architectural judgment: ability to reason about service boundaries, domain ownership, failure modes, versioning, and long-term maintainability — not just immediate implementation choices. •Deep proficiency in backend platform engineering: RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), and shared platform design. •Demonstrated ability to anticipate medium-term technical problems and drive toward solutions proactively — not just respond to issues as they surface. •Active participation in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design reviews — with a track record of influencing other experienced engineers, not just consuming information. •Credibility working alongside architects and engineering managers on technically complex, cross-team initiatives — influencing direction without needing to be the final decision-maker. •Clear, positive buy-in toward AI-assisted development as an expected part of modern engineering work; this is not optional for this role. •Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows — including the ability to use AI effectively for implementation, debugging, and documentation while maintaining validation rigor and architectural discipline. 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!