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Lead architectural initiatives and deliver foundational platform capabilities across device and platform domains. | Bachelor's degree and 10+ years backend engineering experience with staff-level impact and expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architectures. | About Alarm.com Alarm.com provides the leading cloud platform for smart security and IoT, powering millions of home and business experiences. Our systems integrate devices, cloud services, APIs, and event-driven workflows into a unified ecosystem used by internal teams and external partners around the world. About the Team This role sits at the intersection of two strategically important areas of Alarm.com's engineering organization: Strategic Partner eXcellence (SPX) and Device Platform. SPX establishes the partner enablement function for Alarm.com's highest-value PaaS integrations. The team architects and maintains the Core Partner Platform — shared edge services, event pipelines, authentication infrastructure, and integration patterns — that allow strategic partners to build reliably on top of Alarm.com's stack. SPX acts as the primary delivery owner for Tier 1 partnerships, drives cross-team alignment, and codifies reusable patterns that enable feature teams to self-serve future integrations. Device Platform builds and evolves the foundational shared capabilities that underpin Alarm.com's connected device ecosystem. This spans the full arc of how devices are modeled, integrated, and managed on the platform — from the APIs and event pipelines that expose device state and commands, to the lifecycle management flows that govern how devices are provisioned and maintained, to the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform at scale. The team is on a deliberate path toward cleaner domain ownership, API-first design, and independently deployable services — a modernization effort that unlocks scalability and consistency for a growing landscape of internal teams and external partners. These two areas are deeply connected. The partner-facing platform depends on the device platform being reliable, well-bounded, and evolvable. The device platform's modernization directly enables the scalability and consistency that strategic partners require. A Staff Engineer in this space operates across both — shaping the technical foundations that teams across the organization build on. The team is led by an Engineering Manager and supported by a senior Architect. The Staff SE hired into this role will work in close partnership with the Architect and the broader engineering organization as a peer technical leader and force multiplier. The Role We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as a technical multiplier across the SPX and Device Platform domains. At Alarm.com, the Staff SE carries a distinct mandate: to make the engineers and systems around them measurably better. This is not primarily a project execution role. The Staff SE owns technically complex, high-visibility initiatives end-to-end, shapes architectural direction across domain boundaries, builds reusable frameworks and patterns that other teams depend on, and helps the organization move faster with more consistency and less rework. Projects spearheaded by a Staff SE carry feature-team-level scope — visible work spanning the organization, often requiring cross-team collaboration and sustained technical leadership. The Staff SE anticipates medium-term technical problems 12+ months out and works proactively to prevent them from becoming delivery or reliability issues. They are active participants in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design forums — not passive consumers of information. Success in this role requires deep technical judgment in backend and platform engineering, the ability to operate across ambiguity and cross-team dependencies, and the credibility to influence technical direction alongside architects, engineering managers, and senior engineers across the department. This is a hands-on role — the Staff SE writes code, leads designs, and drives delivery — but their highest-leverage contribution is the clarity, reusability, and quality they bring to systems and teams beyond their immediate scope. What You'll Do Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the technical direction for complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning device APIs and event pipelines, device lifecycle management, device transport and protocol infrastructure, and partner-facing platform capabilities. Lead architectural design for medium-to-large initiatives, producing high-quality design documents that capture tradeoffs, constraints, and long-term implications — not just the chosen approach. Define and evolve shared platform patterns, API contracts, and event schemas that are used by multiple teams across the department. Anticipate medium-term architectural risks — 12+ months out — and work proactively to prevent them from negatively impacting the team or the platform. Contribute to and influence department-wide technical standards, modernization guidance, and platform conventions — participating in tech councils, working groups, and cross-team design reviews as an active contributor, not a passive observer. Platform & Systems Delivery Lead delivery of foundational platform capabilities across the device ecosystem: device state and command APIs, device lifecycle management, event-driven pipelines, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform. Build and evolve partner-facing platform components within SPX's Core Partner Platform: outbound command services, inbound event pipelines, authentication and authorization infrastructure, and integration patterns that scale across multiple partners. Drive end-to-end delivery of large, multi-engineer initiatives with a high degree of autonomy — from technical design through implementation, validation, and production readiness. Ensure systems you build and influence are observable, supportable, and operationally sound from day one — not as an afterthought. Technical Multiplier & Mentorship Build frameworks, libraries, and components that are reusable across the team or department — and that are actually adopted and used by other engineers. The success of this work is judged on the size of problem solved and whether it genuinely reduces duplicated effort and accelerates delivery. Make engineers around you noticeably more effective — through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching on architectural thinking and engineering craft. Help engineers at all levels frame problems well, constrain scope appropriately, and develop sound technical judgment — not just deliver features. Serve as a trusted technical resource for engineers across SPX, Device Platform, and teams around the organization who build on or depend on shared platform capabilities. Cross-Team Influence & Alignment Drive technical alignment across teams that share platform dependencies — surfacing conflicts early, proposing resolutions, and ensuring shared systems evolve in a coherent direction. Partner with the team's Architect on domain-level technical direction, contributing meaningfully to architectural decisions rather than passively consuming them. Represent the team's technical interests in cross-team forums, dependency discussions, and platform planning conversations. Translate architectural vision into executable plans that delivery teams can act on — bridging the gap between long-term platform direction and near-term delivery reality. Operational Excellence Establish and uphold high standards for production readiness, observability, and reliability across the systems you own and influence. Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and the durable improvements that follow — treating operational quality as a first-class engineering concern. Help define and operationalize SLAs, monitoring frameworks, and support models for partner-facing and shared platform services. AI-Fluent Engineering Use AI-assisted development tools as a consistent part of your engineering workflow — for drafting, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation — while maintaining full architectural control and review discipline. Model rigorous validation practices for AI-generated output: review for correctness, edge cases, security implications, and long-term maintainability before anything reaches production. Help teammates adopt AI tools effectively — sharing workflows, prompting patterns, and validation approaches that raise the team's collective fluency without lowering engineering standards. What We're Looking For What Good Looks Like at This Level A Staff SE at Alarm.com is a technical leader whose impact is unmistakably felt beyond their immediate scope. The clearest signal is multiplier impact: a Staff SE's technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better. They drive initiatives of feature-team-level scope, are capable of seeing current problems and upcoming architectural improvements and driving toward solutions with minimal management support, and are a trusted voice in cross-team technical conversations. The Staff SE operates via two complementary modes: Depth — owning a technology, framework, or component that a meaningful number of other engineers build on, evangelizing it, and making it easy to use and extend; or Breadth — being responsible for the technical direction of a broad set of code and sub-teams, setting a technical roadmap, identifying gaps, and making other engineers more efficient and productive through their projects, designs, and guidance. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of operating at Staff-level scope and impact. Proven experience leading large, multi-engineer technical initiatives end-to-end — from architecture through delivery — with a high degree of autonomy and accountability for outcomes. Demonstrated ability to define and evolve reusable platform patterns, shared libraries, or integration frameworks that are actually adopted and used by other engineers — not just built. Strong architectural judgment: ability to reason about service boundaries, domain ownership, failure modes, versioning, and long-term maintainability — not just immediate implementation choices. Deep proficiency in backend platform engineering: RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), and shared platform design. Experience operating in environments moving from tightly coupled systems toward domain-aligned, independently deployable services. Demonstrated ability to anticipate medium-term technical problems and drive toward solutions proactively — not just respond to issues as they surface. Active participation in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design reviews — with a track record of influencing other experienced engineers, not just consuming information. Credibility working alongside architects and engineering managers on technically complex, cross-team initiatives — influencing direction without needing to be the final decision-maker. Clear, positive buy-in toward AI-assisted development as an expected part of modern engineering work; this is not optional for this role. Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows — including the ability to use AI effectively for implementation, debugging, and documentation while maintaining validation rigor and architectural discipline. Preferred Qualifications Strong experience with .NET/C# and SQL Server; this is the foundation of Alarm.com's backend stack, though equivalent depth in similar ecosystems may translate well. Experience building or evolving partner-facing APIs, external integration platforms, or shared internal platform capabilities consumed by multiple teams. Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event streaming infrastructure — including schema design, consumer patterns, and operational considerations at scale. Experience with device-oriented systems, IoT platforms, device lifecycle management, or integration-heavy backend architectures — including transport protocols, device provisioning flows, and the challenges of connecting physical hardware to cloud platforms at scale. Experience with microservice or domain-aligned architecture patterns, including domain analysis, service boundary definition, and incremental migration from monolithic systems. Experience with observability practices, incident management, and production operations at scale — including defining monitoring frameworks and support models for externally consumed systems. Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in a structured, disciplined workflow — including multi-file refactors, spec-driven development, and test-driven AI usage. Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or other patterns for integrating AI agents with REST APIs and platform services. Experience contributing to or leading department-wide technical standards, architecture decision records, or engineering working groups. Technical Scope This role has broad technical scope across two closely connected platform areas. The Staff SE will own or co-own foundational capabilities spanning device APIs, device lifecycle management, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform — as well as the Core Partner Platform infrastructure within SPX that enables strategic partners to build reliably on top of Alarm.com's stack. The role carries visibility at the Director level and above, and the work has direct impact on Alarm.com's ability to scale strategic partnerships and evolve its device ecosystem. Why This Role Matters Alarm.com is at a critical inflection point in its platform evolution. The shift toward PaaS partnerships, domain-aligned architecture, and a modernized device ecosystem requires engineers who can shape the technical foundations that dozens of teams build on — and who leave systems and organizations better than they found them. The Staff SE hired into this role will help define how device data flows across the platform, how devices are integrated and managed at scale, how partners connect reliably to Alarm.com's infrastructure, and how the engineering organization moves faster with more consistency and less rework. The right person will be a force multiplier in the truest sense — someone whose technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better for years to come. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $144,250—$169,126.82 USD
Lead architecture and engineering for IoT and smart home automation systems with technical leadership and mentoring. | Bachelor's degree and over 15 years experience with strong C#/.NET skills and technical leadership. | Principal Software Engineer — emPower Do you love working with connected devices, automation, and real-world systems? Have you automated your own home, built integrations across smart devices, or thought deeply about how cloud software should control physical systems reliably? Alarm.com is looking for a versatile Principal Software Engineer to help lead architecture and engineering for our emPower team, which builds software for IoT, smart home automation, energy management, HVAC, water, and connected-device control experiences. This role is an IC role that sits at the intersection of cloud services, physical devices, mobile and web applications, automation logic, data processing, and customer-facing product experiences. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across teams. You will help define architecture, guide major design decisions, mentor engineers, and lead the evolution of systems that must be reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable as our connected-device platform continues to grow. Alarm.com combines the product breadth and technical scale of a mature connected-device platform with the collaborative culture of a smaller engineering organization. This role is ideal for someone who wants to work across software, hardware, data, and product domains while helping shape systems used by millions of customers. What You’ll Do As a Principal Software Engineer on the emPower team, you will help design and evolve systems that coordinate physical devices, cloud services, mobile and web applications, automation engines, partner integrations, and data pipelines. You will work across product, firmware, platform, operations, and application engineering teams to turn ambiguous business and technical needs into reliable, scalable, and maintainable software systems. You will be expected to lead through technical depth, sound judgment, and influence. You will own important architecture decisions, guide implementation strategy, and help engineers across multiple teams build better systems. Day-to-Day Responsibilities Provide hands-on technical leadership for systems spanning IoT device control, smart home automation, energy, HVAC, water, and connected-device experiences. Lead architecture and design for major software components, services, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns. Help evolve existing monolithic systems into more modular, scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. Partner with product, firmware, platform, operations, and application teams to turn ambiguous needs into clear technical direction. Mentor engineers at multiple levels and help raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and reusable patterns. Drive cross-team collaboration and execution across multiple technical domains. Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies where they can materially improve product capabilities or engineering outcomes. Reason across the full product stack, including backend services, databases, APIs, web and mobile experiences, device integrations, automation logic, and operational tooling. Be an expert on system architecture, functionality, data flows, operational processes, and the tools needed to operate production systems effectively. Provide technical thought leadership for major software components, systems, and features, earning alignment and driving adoption across teams. Exercise strong engineering judgment: know when to move quickly, when to invest in a robust platform capability, and when to avoid unnecessary complexity. Bring your ideas. We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec. Other duties as assigned. What You Need Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 15+ years of professional software development experience. Proven experience designing, building, and delivering complex software systems. Strong object-oriented programming skills; experience with C#/.NET or a similar object-oriented language is required; direct C# and .NET experience would be a major plus. Significant database design, performance, and development experience. Experience leading technical direction across teams and influencing architecture beyond a single project or codebase. Experience mentoring engineers and helping develop people, practices, and reusable technical solutions. Ability to select appropriate frameworks, architecture patterns, and technical approaches, then educate teams and drive adoption. Strong analytical skills and a practical problem-solving mindset. Ability to lead and influence across teams without relying solely on reporting authority. Ability to reason across the full product stack, including backend services, data stores, APIs, device integrations, and web/mobile user experiences. Strong understanding of object-oriented design, software development lifecycles, and long-term maintainability concerns. Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders. Experience That Would Be a Major Plus Experience with IoT, smart home, energy management, HVAC, water, automation, or connected-device systems. Experience working with physical systems, hardware devices, firmware teams, or embedded-device integrations. Experience with event-driven systems, device telemetry, automation/rules engines, or distributed systems. Experience in modernizing monolithic systems or decomposing systems into modular services. Experience designing systems where cloud software interacts with deployed physical devices and must account for latency, reliability, compatibility, and operational visibility. Why This Role Matters The emPower team works on software that connects the digital and physical world: devices, homes, energy systems, water systems, HVAC systems, automation logic, and customer-facing control experiences. The systems we build must be reliable, understandable, scalable, and adaptable as new devices, integrations, and product capabilities are added. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help shape the architecture behind these experiences. Your work will influence multiple teams, improve the systems engineers build on, and help Alarm.com continue delivering connected-device products that are useful, reliable, and easy for customers to trust. Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $167,500—$213,750 USD
Lead backend development and data infrastructure for home automation features, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. | Bachelor's degree and 6+ years professional experience with strong backend API and database skills. | Senior Software Engineer, Home Automation Experience Team Our Home Automation Experience (HAX) team owns the full home automation domain at Alarm.com including devices, device groups, rules, schedules, scenes, and automation-related notifications, for both customers and dealers, across web, mobile, and the backend services that make it all work. Alarm.com is a smart-home-as-a-service platform — our products reach end customers through a network of professional security and smart-home dealers who install, configure, and support our systems, which means HAX builds for two distinct audiences with very different needs. If 'intuitive, accessible, reliable home automation' is the kind of problem you want to spend the next several years on, this is a good place to do it. As a Senior Software Engineer on the HAX Team Automation Pod, you'll lead design and delivery of high-impact automation features end to end, from partnering with Product Management and Quality Engineering, mentoring engineers around you, to shaping technical direction in design reviews and architectural decisions. You'll focus primarily on backend development and data, infrastructure for all of our automation features including rules, schedules, and more. Alarm.com is one of the few places you can build consumer products that ship at a consumer scale across this kind of technology surface (wireless, software, hardware/device) without changing companies. Engineers here go deep in their area and stay curious about everything else. WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM? Lead and develop full stack software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies. Take part in the entire project life cycle, from requirements development to deployment with heavy cross-team collaboration Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging project goals Write coherent, organized code. Ideal candidates must be comfortable working on a complicated codebase with high levels of abstraction Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec WHAT DO YOU NEED? We are seeking someone who has: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience 6+ years of professional software development experience Strong backend engineering skills building and maintaining HTTP APIs/services (REST and/or GraphQL) Deep working knowledge of object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and common design patterns, with a track record of applying them to real architectural decisions (Experience with C#, .NET Core is a plus) Solid database fundamentals including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and migration strategy Contributed comfortably across both modern and legacy framework codebases Fluency with the day-to-day toolchain of a modern engineer — version control (Git workflows), CI/CD, package managers, structured data formats (JSON, YAML), and observability tooling Experience designing reliable, scalable systems with attention to performance, resiliency, and maintainability Demonstrated testing depth across unit, integration, and end-to-end test layers Strong debugging and operational skills to diagnose and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and traces Experience providing feedback to peers and influencing code quality through design and code reviews Track records of ramping into unfamiliar stacks and shipping production work in them Treats engineering as a craft that pursues mastery through deliberate practice, post-incident learning, and reflection on past decisions; comfortable revisiting and revising prior architectural choices when new information arrives Experience leading projects to completion and mentoring other engineers Proven ability to communicate and collaborate across product, design, and QA and drive technical decisions through delivery Experience scoping and decomposing ambiguous problems into shippable increments Experience articulating tradeoffs explicitly (knowing when/when not to apply patterns) We would love if you have some of the below (but it is fine if you don’t): Experience working on “If this Then that” style automation systems Experience working with assembly or low-level programming languages Frontend engineering experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (for example, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular) Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices architecture Familiarity with event-driven/distributed system design and distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka) Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining code quality and safety Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized deployments (Docker + Kubernetes) Exposure to legacy-to-modern framework migrations Working knowledge of application security fundamentals (auth, authorization, input validation, secrets handling) Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $112,650—$147,801 USD
Lead technical direction and architecture for device APIs and event pipelines, and mentor engineers to improve system quality and delivery speed. | Bachelor's degree and 10+ years backend software engineering experience with leadership in distributed systems and event-driven architectures. | About Alarm.com Alarm.com provides the leading cloud platform for smart security and IoT, powering millions of home and business experiences. Our systems integrate devices, cloud services, APIs, and event-driven workflows into a unified ecosystem used by internal teams and external partners around the world. About the Team This role sits at the intersection of two strategically important areas of Alarm.com's engineering organization: Strategic Partner eXcellence (SPX) Dev And ice Platform. SPX establishes the partner enablement function for Alarm.com's highest-value PaaS integrations. The team architects and maintains the Core Partner Platform — shared edge services, event pipelines, authentication infrastructure, and integration patterns — that allow strategic partners to build reliably ontop of Alarm.com's stack. SPX acts as the primary delivery owner for Tier 1 partnerships, drives cross-team alignment, and codifies reusable patterns that enable feature teams to self-serve future integrations. Device Platform builds and evolves the foundational shared capabilities that underpin Alarm.com's connected device ecosystem. This spans the full arc of how devices are modeled, integrated, and managed on the platform — from the APIs and event pipelines that expose device state and commands, to the lifecycle management flows that govern how devices are provisioned and maintained, to the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform at scale. The team is on a deliberate path toward cleaner domain ownership, API-first design, and independently deployable services — a modernization effort that unlocks scalability and consistency for a growing landscape of internal teams and external partners. These two areas are deeply connected. The partner-facing platform depends on the device platform being reliable, well-bounded, and evolvable. The device platform's modernization directly enables the scalability and consistency that strategic partners require. A Staff Engineer in this space operates across both — shaping the technical foundations that teams across the organization build on. The team is led by an Engineering Manager and supported by a senior Architect. The Staff SE hired into this role will work in close partnership with the Architect and the broader engineering organization as a peer technical leader and force multiplier. The Role We are hiring a to serve as a technical multiplier across the SPX and Device Platform domains. Staff Software Engineer At Alarm.com, the Staff SE carries a distinct mandate: to make the engineers and systems around them measurably better. This is not primarily a project execution role. The Staff SE owns technically complex, high-visibility initiatives end-to-end, shapes architectural direction across domain boundaries, builds reusable frameworks and patterns that other teams depend on, and helps the organization move faster with more consistency and less rework. Projects spearheaded by a Staff SE carry feature-team-level scope — visible work spanning the organization, often requiring cross-team collaboration and sustained technical leadership. The Staff SE anticipates medium-term technical problems 12+ months out and works proactively to prevent them from becoming delivery or reliability issues. They are active participants in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design forums — not passive consumers of information. Success in this role requires deep technical judgment in backend and platform engineering, the ability to operate across ambiguity and cross-team dependencies, and the credibility to influence technical direction alongside architects, engineering managers, and senior engineers across the department. This is a hands-on role — the Staff SE writes code, leads designs, and drives delivery — but their highest-leverage contribution is the clarity, reusability, and quality they bring to systems and teams beyond their immediate scope. What You'll Do Technical Leadership & Architecture Own the technical direction for complex, cross-cutting initiatives spanning device APIs and event pipelines, device lifecycle management, device transport and protocol infrastructure, and partner-facing platform capabilities. Lead architectural design for medium-to-large initiatives, producing high-quality design documents that capture tradeoffs, constraints, and long- term implications — not just the chosen approach. Define and evolve shared platform patterns, API contracts, and event schemas that are used by multiple teams across the department. Anticipate medium-term architectural risks — 12+ months out — and work proactively to prevent them from negatively impacting the team or the platform. Contribute to and influence department-wide technical standards, modernization guidance, and platform conventions — participating in tech councils, working groups, and cross-team design reviews as an active contributor, not a passive observer. Platform & Systems Delivery Lead delivery of foundational platform capabilities across the device ecosystem: device state and command APIs, device lifecycle management, event-driven pipelines, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform. Build and evolve partner-facing platform components within SPX's Core Partner Platform: outbound command services, inbound event pipelines, authentication and authorization infrastructure, and integration patterns that scale across multiple partners. Drive end-to-end delivery of large, multi-engineer initiatives with a high degree of autonomy — from technical design through implementation, validation, and production readiness. Ensure systems you build and influence are observable, supportable, and operationally sound from day one — not as an afterthought. Technical Multiplier & Mentorship Build frameworks, libraries, and components that are reusable across the team or department — and that are actually adopted and used by other engineers. The success of this work is judged on the size of problem solved and whether it genuinely reduces duplicated effort and accelerates delivery. Make engineers around you noticeably more effective — through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching on architectural thinking and engineering craft. Help engineers at all levels frame problems well, constrain scope appropriately, and develop sound technical judgment — not just deliver features. Serve as a trusted technical resource for engineers across SPX, Device Platform, and teams around the organization who build on or depend on shared platform capabilities. Cross-Team Influence & Alignment Drive technical alignment across teams that share platform dependencies — surfacing conflicts early, proposing resolutions, and ensuring shared systems evolve in a coherent direction. Partner with the team's Architect on domain-level technical direction, contributing meaningfully to architectural decisions rather than passively consuming them. Represent the team's technical interests in cross-team forums, dependency discussions, and platform planning conversations. Translate architectural vision into executable plans that delivery teams can act on — bridging the gap between long-term platform direction and near-term delivery reality. Operational Excellence Establish and uphold high standards for production readiness, observability, and reliability across the systems you own and influence. Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and the durable improvements that follow — treating operational quality as a first-class engineering concern. Help define and operationalize SLAs, monitoring frameworks, and support models for partner-facing and shared platform services. AI-Fluent Engineering Use AI-assisted development tools as a consistent part of your engineering workflow — for drafting, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation — while maintaining full architectural control and review discipline. Model rigorous validation practices for AI-generated output: review for correctness, edge cases, security implications, and long-term maintainability before anything reaches production. Help teammates adopt AI tools effectively — sharing workflows, prompting patterns, and validation approaches that raise the team's collective fluency without lowering engineering standards. What We're Looking For What Good Looks Like at This Level A Staff SE at Alarm.com is a technical leader whose impact is unmistakably felt beyond their immediate scope. The clearest signal is multiplier impact: a Staff SE's technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better. They drive initiatives of feature-team-level scope, are capable of seeing current problems and upcoming architectural improvements and driving toward solutions with minimal management support, and are a trusted voice in cross-team technical conversations. The Staff SE operates via two complementary modes: Depth — owning a technology, framework, or component that a meaningful number of other engineers build on, evangelizing it, and making it easy to use and extend; or Breadth — being responsible for the technical direction of a broad set of code and sub-teams, setting a technical roadmap, identifying gaps, and making other engineers more efficient and productive through their projects, designs, and guidance. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of operating at Staff-level scope and impact. Proven experience leading large, multi-engineer technical initiatives end-to-end — from architecture through delivery — with a high degree of autonomy and accountability for outcomes. Demonstrated ability to define and evolve reusable platform patterns, shared libraries, or integration frameworks that are actually adopted and used by other engineers — not just built. Strong architectural judgment: ability to reason about service boundaries, domain ownership, failure modes, versioning, and long-term maintainability — not just immediate implementation choices. Deep proficiency in backend platform engineering: RESTful and/or gRPC APIs, distributed systems, event-driven architectures (Kafka or equivalent), and shared platform design. Experience operating in environments moving from tightly coupled systems toward domain-aligned, independently deployable services. Demonstrated ability to anticipate medium-term technical problems and drive toward solutions proactively — not just respond to issues as they surface. Active participation in engineering leadership initiatives — tech councils, working groups, cross-team design reviews — with a track record of influencing other experienced engineers, not just consuming information. Credibility working alongside architects and engineering managers on technically complex, cross-team initiatives — influencing direction without needing to be the final decision-maker. Clear, positive buy-in toward AI-assisted development as an expected part of modern engineering work; this is not optional for this role. Practical familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows — including the ability to use AI effectively for implementation, debugging, and documentation while maintaining validation rigor and architectural discipline. Preferred Qualifications Strong experience with .NET/C# and SQL Server; this is the foundation of Alarm.com's backend stack, though equivalent depth in similar ecosystems may translate well. Experience building or evolving partner-facing APIs, external integration platforms, or shared internal platform capabilities consumed by multiple teams. Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event streaming infrastructure — including schema design, consumer patterns, and operational considerations at scale. Experience with device-oriented systems, IoT platforms, device lifecycle management, or integration-heavy backend architectures — including transport protocols, device provisioning flows, and the challenges of connecting physical hardware to cloud platforms at scale. Experience with microservice or domain-aligned architecture patterns, including domain analysis, service boundary definition, and incremental migration from monolithic systems. Experience with observability practices, incident management, and production operations at scale — including defining monitoring frameworks and support models for externally consumed systems. Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) in a structured, disciplined workflow — including multi-file refactors, spec-driven development, and test-driven AI usage. Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or other patterns for integrating AI agents with REST APIs and platform services. Experience contributing to or leading department-wide technical standards, architecture decision records, or engineering working groups. Technical Scope This role has broad technical scope across two closely connected platform areas. The Staff SE will own or co-own foundational capabilities spanningdevice APIs, device lifecycle management, and the transport and protocol infrastructure that connects physical devices to the platform — as well as the Core Partner Platform infrastructure within SPX that enables strategic partners to build reliably on top of Alarm.com's stack. The role carries visibility at the Director level and above, and the work has direct impact on Alarm.com's ability to scale strategic partnerships and evolve its device ecosystem. Why This Role Matters Alarm.com is at a critical inflection point in its platform evolution. The shift toward PaaS partnerships, domain-aligned architecture, and a modernized device ecosystem requires engineers who can shape the technical foundations that dozens of teams build on — and who leave systems and organizations better than they found them. The Staff SE hired into this role will help define how device data flows across the platform, how devices are integrated and managed at scale, how partners connect reliably to Alarm.coms infrastructure, and how the engineering organization moves faster with more consistency and less rework. The right person will be a force multiplier in the truest sense — someone whose technical contributions, reusable patterns, and engineering judgment make the teams and systems around them measurably better for years to come. Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $144,250—$169,126.82 USD
Develop full-stack software and collaborate with teams to implement features end-to-end. | Requires bachelor's degree and 2+ years of software development experience with proficiency in JavaScript frameworks and backend API development. | Software Engineer II, Home Automation Experience Team Our Home Automation Experience (HAX) team owns the full home automation domain at Alarm.com including devices, device groups, rules, schedules, scenes, and automation-related notifications, for both customers and dealers, across web, mobile, and the backend services that make it all work. Alarm.com is a smart-home-as-a-service platform — our products reach end customers through a network of professional security and smart-home dealers who install, configure, and support our systems, which means HAX builds for two distinct audiences with very different needs. If 'intuitive, accessible, reliable home automation' is the kind of problem you want to spend the next several years on, this is a good place to do it. As a Software Engineer II on HAX, you'll support the delivery of high-impact features end to end, from partnering with Product Management and Quality Engineering, collaborating with your peer engineers, to being involved in and owning technical designs and feature implementations. You'll move across the stack as the work demands: frontend, backend, data, infrastructure. Alarm.com is one of the few places you can build consumer products that ship at a consumer scale across this kind of technology surface (wireless, software, hardware/device) without changing companies. Engineers here go deep in their area and stay curious about everything else. WHY WORK AT ALARM.COM? Open Collaborative Environment: We have a strong focus on teamwork, and we work to create a collaborative and welcoming environment that enables our teams to excel Wide Technology Exposure: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT and SaaS technology. Our tech stack includes C# .NET, SQL Server, Kafka, Ember.js, React, Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, Azure, Redis, as well as native iOS and Android applications Bring Your Full Self: We want to give you the freedom and trust to bring your own unique experiences to make best in class products Supportive Team: We place high value on our team’s inquisitive, collaborative, and supportive culture. We hold coffee chats, technical spotlights, team-building events, and offer pair programming rotations as ways to connect with our teammates beyond direct project work In-person Experience: com values working together and collaborating in person. You will be working from the office 4 days a week WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM? Develop full stack software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies. Take part in the entire project life cycle, from requirements development to deployment with heavy cross-team collaboration Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging project goals Write coherent, organized code. Ideal candidates must be comfortable working on a complicated codebase with high levels of abstraction Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec WHAT DO YOU NEED? We are seeking someone who has: Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience 2+ years of professional software development experience Solid frontend engineering skills with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (for example, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular) Solid backend engineering skills building and maintaining HTTP APIs/services (REST and/or GraphQL) Solid knowledge of object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and common design patterns, with a track record of applying them to real architectural decisions (Experience with C#, .NET Core is a plus) Solid database fundamentals including schema design, query optimization, indexing Fluency with the day-to-day toolchain of a modern engineer — version control (Git workflows), CI/CD, package managers, structured data formats (JSON, YAML), and observability tooling Demonstrated testing depth across unit, integration, and end-to-end test layers Experience providing feedback to peers and influencing code quality through design and code reviews Treats engineering as a craft that pursues mastery through deliberate practice, post-incident learning, and reflection on past decisions; comfortable revisiting and revising prior architectural choices when new information arrives Proven ability to communicate and collaborate across product, design, and QA and drive technical decisions through delivery Experience scoping and decomposing ambiguous problems into shippable increments We would love if you have some of the below (but it is fine if you don’t): Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices architecture Familiarity with event-driven/distributed system design and distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka) Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining code quality and safety Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized deployments (Docker + Kubernetes) Exposure to legacy-to-modern framework migrations Working knowledge of application security fundamentals (auth, authorization, input validation, secrets handling) Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $88,300—$122,550 USD
Lead design and delivery of full stack home automation features, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and shape architecture. | Bachelor's degree and 6+ years professional software development experience with proficiency in modern JavaScript frameworks, backend API development, and object-oriented design. | Senior Software Engineer, Home Automation Experience Team Our Home Automation Experience (HAX) team owns the full home automation domain at Alarm.com including devices, device groups, rules, schedules, scenes, and automation-related notifications, for both customers and dealers, across web, mobile, and the backend services that make it all work. Alarm.com is a smart-home-as-a-service platform — our products reach end customers through a network of professional security and smart-home dealers who install, configure, and support our systems, which means HAX builds for two distinct audiences with very different needs. If 'intuitive, accessible, reliable home automation' is the kind of problem you want to spend the next several years on, this is a good place to do it. As a Senior Software Engineer on HAX, you'll lead design and delivery of high-impact features end to end, from partnering with Product Management and Quality Engineering, mentoring engineers around you, to shaping technical direction in design reviews and architectural decisions. You'll move across the stack as the work demands: frontend, backend, data, infrastructure. Alarm.com is one of the few places you can build consumer products that ship at a consumer scale across this kind of technology surface (wireless, software, hardware/device) without changing companies. Engineers here go deep in their area and stay curious about everything else. WHY WORK AT ALARM.COM? Open Collaborative Environment: We have a strong focus on teamwork, and we work to create a collaborative and welcoming environment that enables our teams to excel Wide Technology Exposure: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of IoT and SaaS technology. Our tech stack includes C# .NET, SQL Server, Kafka, Ember.js, React, Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, Azure, Redis, as well as native iOS and Android applications Bring Your Full Self: We want to give you the freedom and trust to bring your own unique experiences to make best in class products Supportive Team: We place high value on our team’s inquisitive, collaborative, and supportive culture. We hold coffee chats, technical spotlights, team-building events, and offer pair programming rotations as ways to connect with our teammates beyond direct project work In-person Experience: com values working together and collaborating in person. You will be working from the office 4 days a week WHAT CAN YOU DO FOR ALARM.COM? Lead and develop full stack software for a wide variety of platforms and technologies. Take part in the entire project life cycle, from requirements development to deployment with heavy cross-team collaboration Engage in the research, evaluation, and application of new technologies and methodologies to solve challenging project goals Write coherent, organized code. Ideal candidates must be comfortable working on a complicated codebase with high levels of abstraction Exercise good judgment. Know when to work quickly, and when to build a robust solution Work hard and be flexible: we have quick development cycles, evolving requirements, and lots of cross-team collaboration Bring your ideas! We want our engineers to collaborate on product development, not blindly build to a spec WHAT DO YOU NEED? Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent work experience 6+ years of professional software development experience Strong frontend engineering skills with modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (for example, React, Ember, Vue, or Angular) Strong backend engineering skills building and maintaining HTTP APIs/services (REST and/or GraphQL) Deep working knowledge of object-oriented design, SOLID principles, and common design patterns, with a track record of applying them to real architectural decisions (Experience with C#, .NET Core is a plus) Solid database fundamentals including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and migration strategy Contributed comfortably across both modern and legacy framework codebases Fluency with the day-to-day toolchain of a modern engineer — version control (Git workflows), CI/CD, package managers, structured data formats (JSON, YAML), and observability tooling Experience designing reliable, scalable systems with attention to performance, resiliency, and maintainability Demonstrated testing depth across unit, integration, and end-to-end test layers Strong debugging and operational skills to diagnose and resolve production issues using logs, metrics, and traces Experience providing feedback to peers and influencing code quality through design and code reviews Track records of ramping into unfamiliar stacks and shipping production work in them Treats engineering as a craft that pursues mastery through deliberate practice, post-incident learning, and reflection on past decisions; comfortable revisiting and revising prior architectural choices when new information arrives Experience leading projects to completion and mentoring other engineers Proven ability to communicate and collaborate across product, design, and QA and drive technical decisions through delivery Experience scoping and decomposing ambiguoug problems into shippable increments Experience articulating tradeoffs explicitly (knowing when/when not to apply patterns) PREFERRED SKILLS Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices architecture Familiarity with event-driven/distributed system design and distributed event streaming platforms (Kafka) Experience using AI-assisted development tools effectively while maintaining code quality and safety Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and containerized deployments (Docker + Kubernetes) Exposure to legacy-to-modern framework migrations Working knowledge of application security fundamentals (auth, authorization, input validation, secrets handling) Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. Community and Camaraderie: One of our core values is to 'Keep It Fun,' which to us means fostering a strong sense of community. Our culture is built on collaboration and connection, where we celebrate our successes and believe that a positive, engaging environment is key to doing our best work. Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading platform for intelligently connected properties. Millions of homeowners and businesses rely on Alarm.com's technology to secure, monitor, and manage their environments from anywhere. Our comprehensive suite of solutions—including security, video surveillance, access control, active shooter detection, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness—is delivered exclusively through a trusted network of thousands of professional service providers and commercial integrators across North America and worldwide. Alarm.com's common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. Alarm.com delivers serious security for serious people. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Our total rewards package is designed to support you holistically—in your health, your finances, and your life outside of work. The package includes medical plans with company subsidies, a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution, and a 401(k) with an employer match. We encourage a healthy work-life balance with paid vacation that increases with tenure, paid holidays, wellness time, and paid maternity and bonding leave. To complete the package, we also provide company-paid disability and life insurance, all within a collaborative and casual work environment. Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. The base salary range of this opportunity is listed below and is determined within a range based on factors including qualifications, location and experience. This allows opportunity for growth and development within the role. The base salary offered is part of a total compensation package. Base Salary Range $112,650—$147,801 USD
Manage multiple technology projects and stakeholders, define and execute project plans, facilitate team communication, and improve project management practices in a fast-paced IoT environment. | 3-5 years project management experience, familiarity with Agile and Atlassian tools, strong communication and analytical skills, and a relevant bachelor's degree. | Position Overview Are you an ambitious self-starter with diverse interests and the ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment? Want to make an immediate impact on the exciting and rapidly evolving IoT space? Do you seek a friendly company culture where you can work closely with passionate and highly productive people across an interesting spectrum of technologies? Alarm.com is seeking a motivated Project Manager II who wants to be part of a fast-paced, rapidly growing team. The Project Management role is perfect for candidates who want to gain exposure to a wide variety of technologies in the IoT world including wireless communication, video monitoring, smart home automation, web development, and backend application development and hosting. Very few small companies innovate and develop across such a broad range of technologies as Alarm.com. This position is ideal for the candidate who seeks a small, friendly company culture and is driven to work closely with smart and highly productive people across a wide spectrum of IoT, software, and hardware/device technologies to develop outstanding consumer products. Essential Duties And Responsibilities • Manage multiple technology projects, stakeholders, and company resources across multiple product offerings • Define, own, and manage holistic project plans/roadmaps to clearly communicate the necessary steps and measurable milestones to achieve project success • Align local and remote project teams (internal & external), utilizing multiple project management techniques to effectively solve problems and stay flexible in a fast-paced environment • Actively own day to day project execution, including maintaining a project backlog, communicating with stakeholders, building consensus, and facilitating team meetings • Identify, communicate, and resolve project dependencies, risks, or opportunities • Supporting Engineering and Product Management teams at all stages of the project lifecycle • Champion Engineering technical documentation and project information organization • Identifying and implementing new Project Management practices and overall team process improvements in coordination with Program Management • Develop and maintain strong relationships with Alarm.com’s technology partners, all while identifying new technology or partnership opportunities that add value to Alarm.com’s business • Other duties as assigned Requirements • B.S. or B.A. required. Degree in an engineering discipline, computer science, math, physics or related field is highly preferred • 3-5 years of hands on project management or related experience • Passion for consumer technology and developing a deep understanding of complex products and systems, with a focus on IoT technologies • Relevant industry experience developing, leading or managing projects within a technical engineering organization • Proven track record working across multiple disciplines in a fast-paced team environment • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - understanding and coordination of a complex product suite across many different teams. • Ability to context switch, desire to learn, and good communication skills required • General knowledge of business, economics and/or finance is a plus • Familiarity with Agile methodologies, as well as the Atlassian suite of products (especially JIRA and Confluence), is a plus • Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of products and project management tools Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? • Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. • Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! • Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. • Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-out holiday party, happy hours, and other fun corporate events. • Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. Company Info Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we’re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. Company Benefits Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits inclusive of subsidized medical plan options, an HSA with generous company contribution, a 401(k) with employer match, and paid holidays, wellness time, and vacation increasing with tenure. Paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities, and a casual dress work environment are also part of our outstanding total rewards package! Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. JR105301
Develop and execute go-to-market strategies, create product positioning and sales enablement content, drive product launches, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support growth. | 1-2 years of product marketing or tech marketing experience, bachelor's degree, strong communication skills, passion for IoT and technology, and ability to manage projects independently. | Alarm.com is looking for a smart, tenacious, and inquisitive B2B2B and B2B2C Product Marketer who can operate between product management, sales, marketing, and training to help develop and execute the go-to-market strategy for Alarm.com products. The product marketer must be able to assess the market to understand the product/service landscape our channel partners (and their customers) sit in. The Product Marketing Manager will drive research projects to understand market needs, trends, and competition. He/she/they will be responsible for developing video and partner services product positioning and content/tools for sales enablement and product launches. This role will work closely with product management, partner marketing, and sales teams to identify gaps, develop resources, and launch associated initiatives to support the residential and venture business units' growth goals. Responsibilities • Helps formulate and execute go-to-market strategy for key video and/or partner services product lines and new product launches • Develops product positioning content, messaging, and sales enablement assets • Acts as the Voice of the Customer champion; collects feedback from partner and end user-facing teams to fuel product development and roadmaps • Supports effective product launches by driving internal consensus around project and product delivery dates and works with all teams to ensure milestone and delivery dates are met • Helps turn marketing and buyer intelligence into sales tools and thought leadership to support the full sales cycle • Creates content, assets, and tools including market briefs, sales playbooks, and other materials • Develops actionable, data-driven insights to inform product and marketing strategy • Drives development and validation of product/service positioning, category creation, messaging, and competitive segmentation • Articulates the differentiated value of Alarm.com technology and can clearly communicate the value to internal and external audiences. Understands technical product/service specs and translates them into meaningful benefits for impacted audiences • Other duties as assigned Requirements • 1-2 years of Product Marketing Experience OR Marketing experience in the Tech field • Bachelor's degree- Degree in business, engineering, or hard sciences a plus • Demonstratable track record of crafting compelling positioning and thought leadership content • Passion for Internet of Things (IoT), software-as-a-service, technology, and innovative thinking • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Passion for new technologies and working in fast-moving markets • Ability to synthesize high-level direction from leadership into actionable work products • Ability to own project development, execution, and completion autonomously Please note that sponsorship of new applicants for employment authorization, or any other immigration-related support, is not available for this position at this time. WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM? • Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers. • Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team! • Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business. • Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-out holiday party, happy hours, and other fun corporate events. • Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week. COMPANY INFO Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we're innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. We're seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com. COMPANY BENEFITS Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits inclusive of subsidized medical plan options, an HSA with generous company contribution, a 401(k) with employer match, and paid holidays, wellness time, and vacation increasing with tenure. Paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities, and a casual dress work environment are also part of our outstanding total rewards package! Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision. Notice To Third Party Agencies: Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com. JR105235
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