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# Principal Software Engineer, Platform

- **Company:** Vivint, Inc.
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $225,000.0 - $285,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Communications Protocols, Continuous Integration, Software Design Documents, Desktop Computing, Distributed Systems, FFmpeg, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Private Cloud Environment, Datadog, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Technical Debt, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Video Streaming, Stream Processing, Grpc, Golang
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_vivint-45864

## About the Role

roadmap with business priorities. **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience + 10+ years of experience building and operating production systems, including several years as a technical lead at the staff or principal level + Expert-level skills in Go, Python, Java, or similar backend languages + Track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with high availability and low latency + Deep experience with cloud-native infrastructure: containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and GCP or AWS + Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving adoption of standards without direct authority + Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain trade-offs to both engineers and senior leadership **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) + Experience designing REST and/or gRPC APIs at scale,
including versioning and backward compatibility + Experience with IoT systems or device communication protocols (e.g., MQTT) + Experience with observability and SRE practices (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, SLOs) + Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB) and data modeling at scale + Experience with video streaming technologies (e.g., MP4, HLS, ffmpeg) + Experience with private cloud or hybrid infrastructure + Experience building internal developer platforms or using AI-assisted development tools **Working at Vivint:** Learn about the Vivint Culture (https://www.vivint.com/company/careers) and why it's a great place to grow your career!

## Description

In this role, you will be responsible to: + Define the technical strategy and multi-year architecture for core platform services, event pipelines, and APIs. + Lead the design of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that process real-time events from millions of devices. + Own cross-team technical decisions: author and review design documents and resolve trade-offs across mobile, backend, embedded, and data teams. + Set standards for reliability, security, observability, and operability, including SLOs, production readiness, and incident review. + Stay hands-on: build prototypes and critical components, and lead resolution of the hardest production issues. + Identify systemic technical debt and platform risks, and drive plans to address them, including build-vs-buy decisions. + Mentor senior and staff engineers, help set the hiring bar, and establish engineering culture for the Seattle team. + Partner with Product, Security, and engineering leadership to align the platform, Here are some highlighted perks you should ask us about: + Paid holidays and flexible paid time away + Employee/Friends/Family Discounts + Medical/dental/vision/life coverage & 24/7 Medical Hotline + 401(k) + Employer Match + Employee Resource Groups + Quarterly Innovation Weeks **WORKING CONDITIONS:** This job operates in a professional office environment.
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. **SAFETY:** Vivint enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe working environment.
Each new employee is responsible for completing all training requirements.
Additionally, the employee must accept they have responsibility for maintaining the safety of themselves, their co-workers, and the public.
Employee must adhere to all written and verbal instructions, promptly report and correct all hazards or unsafe conditions, question non-standard operations or unmitigated hazards, and provide feedback to management on all safety issues.
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace.
To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.