Senior Backend Engineer (Alarms)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Alarms): Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate AI-driven alarm detection and response with an accent on distributed systems, API architecture, and event-driven workflows. Focus on creating extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring, integrating internal products and third-party services, and scaling real-time threat identification across hardware and cloud platforms.

San Mateo, CA, United States. Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Estimated Annual Pay Range: $130,000 - $280,000 USD

Company

hirify.global transforms how organizations protect people and places with an integrated, AI-powered physical security platform including video security, access control, alarms, and sensors. Trusted by over 30,000 organizations worldwide, including 100+ Fortune 500 companies.

What you will do

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
• Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
• Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services like notifications, transcription, and dispatch
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
• Operate with autonomy, owning systems from design through production
• Champion best practices in testing, observability, and continuous deployment

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
• Strong programming skills—Go preferred
• Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
• Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis)
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week in San Mateo, CA

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
• Interest in building AI-integrated, real-time systems
• Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare with 100% premium coverage for employees and 80% for families, plus nationwide medical, vision, and dental
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, fertility benefits and stipend
• Flexible PTO, personal sick time, paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays
• Professional development stipend, wellness/fitness benefits, healthy lunches, commuter benefits