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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Hybrid
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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?
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
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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.