[Remote] Staff Engineer - Engineering Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Arlo Technologies, Inc. is dedicated to creating innovative and reliable security solutions. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architecture and modernization of their Java-based cloud platform, ensuring scalability and high performance while driving best engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve scalable, high-availability distributed system architecture
- Lead modernization of microservices and modular Java platforms
- Establish technical roadmaps aligned with product and business priorities
- Develop high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Optimize systems for scalability, low latency, and reliability under heavy load
- Strengthen CI/CD, containerization, and deployment automation practices
- Drive best practices in observability, security, and system reliability
- Architect and operate cloud-native systems on AWS (EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, etc.)
- Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL data models for performance and scale
- Leverage AI tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to accelerate design, refactoring, testing, and modernization while ensuring enterprise-grade quality and security standards
- Influence technical direction across teams
- Partner with Product, DevOps, SRE, and Security to align engineering initiatives with business goals
Skills
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily in Java
- Strong expertise in Spring Boot and distributed systems architecture
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- Advanced experience with SQL and DynamoDB
- Experience operating high-throughput systems (1M+ requests/min)
- Real-time or event-driven systems expertise (MQTT, streaming)
- Strong understanding of observability, distributed tracing, and performance tuning
- Solid knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC and security best practices
- Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership and mentorship capability
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale production systems on AWS (7+ years preferred)
- IoT or event-driven domain experience preferred
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Full range of benefits
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