Senior Backend Engineer (Device Cloud Platform)

Department: Engineering - Video

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Austin

Reporting To: Device Cloud Team Lead

Compensation: $180,000 - $200,000 / year

Description

The Senior Backend Engineer on the Devices Cloud Platform team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining backend services and platform capabilities that support a global cloud video platform. The position provides senior-level ownership of critical systems supporting reliable communication, deployment, and operation of services across a distributed, multi-region environment.

The role combines hands-on Go development with cloud-native platform engineering, spanning backend services, Kubernetes, networking, distributed systems, and production reliability. These systems also support the distribution of settings and configuration to edge devices, directly enabling customer-facing capabilities and helping solve real-world customer needs. The position contributes to platform architecture and engineering practices with a focus on building reliable, scalable systems that have a direct impact on both the product and the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and shared platform components that support customer-facing products and capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, testing, automation, documentation, and overall engineering quality.
• Troubleshoot complex platform, networking, distributed-state, and production reliability issues across device-edge and cloud services, including SSH and reverse-tunnel workflows.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, provide technical guidance and mentorship, and contribute to architecture and development practices that improve the scalability and maintainability of the platform.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of relevant software or cloud engineering experience, with demonstrated senior-level ownership of complex production systems; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Go expertise, emphasis on concurrency, systems programming, and production HTTP services
• Strong networking and distributed-systems fundamentals, including SSH protocol concepts, reverse tunneling, network security, and state coordination using technologies such as etcd and Redis.
• Experience with containerized CI/CD environments, production observability, and disciplined automated testing; comfortable working across languages and reading Python/Django code when needed, and able to use AI coding tools productively while critically validating generated work.

The compensation for this full time salaried role ranges between $180,000-$200,000. Individual compensation packages are based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, training, and market conditions. In addition, Brivonians enjoy a robust benefits and perks package tailored to their work location.