Software Engineer II – Video Platform

About SimpliSafe

Were a high-tech home security company thats passionate about protecting the life youve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And weve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career youre building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We dont just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.

Were embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days typically Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

Why are we hiring

Well were growing and thriving. So we need smart talented and humble people who share our values to join us as we disrupt the home security space and relentlessly pursue our mission of keeping Every Home Secure.

What Youll Do

As a Software Engineer II on SimpliSafes Video team youll help build and operate the cloud-based systems that power live streaming and video recording for SimpliSafe cameras.

Our team owns the backend microservices that ingest process store and deliver video in real timeserving customers monitoring agents and machine learning systems. We operate at scale and in a safety-critical domain where reliability performance and simplicity matter deeply.

Youll work closely with engineers product managers and partner teams to design build and improve services that give customers confidence and visibility into their homes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design build and maintain backend services that support live video streaming and recording at scale.
• Write clean reliable and well-tested code using modern development tools and practices with a focus on maintainability and long-term ownership.
• Improve system reliability performance and observability through thoughtful design and iteration.
• Work with senior engineers to learn and apply best practices for designing and operating distributed systems.
• Participate in operational responsibilities including on-call rotation incident response and post-incident learning.
• Collaborate in design discussions and contribute to technical decisions within the team.
• Document systems and workflows to ensure knowledge is shared and services are easy to evolve.
• Continuously improve existing systems through refactoring automation and technical debt reduction.

What Youll Bring

• Experience building and supporting cloud-based backend systems in production.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (such as TypeScript C# Go or Java) and willingness to work across a multi-language environment.
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design principles and writing maintainable testable code.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts (e.g. APIs asynchronous processing fault tolerance).
• Experience deploying or operating services in AWS.
• Comfort working in an Agile team environment and collaborating across disciplines.
• Curiosity ownership mindset and a desire to learn and grow as an engineer.
• A collaborative humble approach with a preference for shared ownership.

Nice to Have

• Experience with video streaming or real-time data systems.
• Exposure to microservice architectures message queues or event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring logging and observability tools.
• Experience supporting systems used by machine learning or analytics pipelines.

What Values Youll Share

• Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers putting them at the core of our work and developing strong long-term relationships with them.
• Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego - Maintaining a no job too small attitude and an open inclusive and humble style.
• One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
• Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
• Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.

What We Offer

• A mission- and values-driven culture and a safe inclusive environment where you can build grow and thrive
• A comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families (For more information on our total rewards please click here)
• Free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home.
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that bring people together give opportunities to network mentor and develop and advocate for change.

The target annual base pay range for this role is $93800 to $137600.

This target annual base pay range represents our good-faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this role. We use a market-based compensation approach to set our target annual base pay ranges and make adjustments annually. We carefully tailor individual compensation packages including base pay taking into consideration employees job-related skills experience qualifications work location and other relevant business factors.

Beyond base pay we offer a Total Rewards package that may include participation in our annual bonus program equity and other forms of compensation in addition to a full range of medical retirement and lifestyle benefits. More details can be found here.

Were committed to fair and equitable pay practices as well as pay transparency. We regularly review our programs to ensure they remain competitive and aligned with our values.

We wholeheartedly embrace and actively seek applications from all individuals no matter how they identify. We are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace and we believe our work is enriched when we incorporate a multitude of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. We want everyone who works here to thrive and contribute to not only our mission of keeping every home secure but also to making our workplace safe and supportive for others. If a reasonable accommodation may be needed to fully participate in the job application or interview process to perform the essential functions of a position or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please contact .