Sr Software Engineer, Platform at Vivint
WA
—
Jul 10, 2026
WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure for a smart home IoT platform. Day-to-day work spans designing cloud services, event-driven pipelines, and APIs that connect millions of devices in real time. The position suits engineers comfortable owning systems end-to-end — from architecture through production — and who want to help establish a newly formed engineering team in Seattle.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 92,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 55,000–138,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (11)
The posting is anchored to a Seattle office build-out but the caller has declared this fully remote; metro is left blank accordingly.
The degree requirement is listed as 'preferred' ('B.S. in Computer Science or related field preferred'), so it is not treated as a hard gate.
The JD explicitly notes openness to 'Senior → Staff level'; advertised seniority is Senior (the title) and the requirements support Senior.
Go and Python are listed together as the primary language requirement ('Go, Python, or similar backend languages') — Go is named first and is the canonical skill; Python is captured as an alternative.
REST and gRPC are listed as interchangeable API experience ('REST and/or gRPC APIs') — REST is the primary, gRPC the alternative.
'Modern cloud-native tooling (containers, orchestration, CI/CD)' appears in the Required section; containers and CI/CD are emitted as named capabilities. 'Orchestration' is not a specific named tool and is omitted per extraction rules; Kubernetes (the dominant orchestrator) appears separately under Preferred.
Kafka is listed under Preferred as an example of event-driven/messaging experience.
MQTT is listed under Preferred as an example IoT device communication protocol.
ffmpeg is listed under Preferred alongside video streaming technologies (MP4, HLS); it is the most specific named tool in that group.
No compensation figures are provided beyond 'competitive compensation' and a performance bonus mention.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.