Staff Software Engineer

About SimpliSafe

We’re 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.

What You'll Do

As an engineer on SimpliSafe's Video team you will build and maintain the cloud-based systems that empower customers to interact with their home security cameras from anywhere in the world.

We're looking for a motivated, experienced Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, maintain and own software solutions. We're a backend team solving large-scale video streaming and recording problems to ensure customers have real-time control and visibility into their cameras. You'll be working with our stack of Go, C#, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, SQS, SNS, ffmpeg, WebRTC.

The safety of our customers is important, and as such our key pillars are reliability, simplicity, and performance.

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and design simple, reliable, flexible solutions.
• Drive the implementation of those solutions, both by writing code yourself and supporting other engineers with code reviews and mentoring.
• Long-term support & maintenance work, such as performance optimization, bug fixes, feature additions, design and usability improvements, and automation.
• Document the systems you are building to ensure they can be maintained by the next generation of developers.
• Serve as an on-call first responder for software owned by your team.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years of industry experience, including having owned the architecture of a production backend system end-to-end, from design through long-term operational ownership.
• 2+ years designing, building, or operating a real-time or low-latency video streaming service, e.g. HLS/DASH delivery or WebRTC media distribution.
• Experience with tools such as WebRTC, GStreamer, ffmpeg, or libav.
• Familiarity with video streaming standards such as HLS/DASH, fMP4, CMAF, adaptive bitrate packaging, video codecs (H.264, HEVC, AV1), audio codecs (AAC), and transport protocols (SRT, RTMP, WHIP, MoQ).
• Extensive experience building and running cloud-based microservices and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical decision-making within a team.
• Proficiency in at least one major programming language (Go, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, etc.).
• Passion, curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and grow.
• Extensive experience with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and proven track record to break down complexity.
• Experience with IoT or smart home video streaming applications is a plus.
• Familiarity with the Agile Scrum process.

What We Offer

The target annual base pay range for this role is $146,000 - $195,000.

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.

We’re 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.