Brilliant Smart Home · 2 days ago
Senior Backend Engineer (10+ years experience)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expBrilliant NextGen is transforming the smart home experience for builders, homeowners, and smart home professionals. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will architect, build, and maintain the systems that power the Brilliant ecosystem, collaborating with various teams to deliver new features and ensure system reliability.
Consumer ElectronicsDigital MediaHome ImprovementSmart Home
Responsibilities
Architect, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend features and services
Design and extend GraphQL and RESTful APIs for Python-based services
Develop and maintain gRPC backends and integrations with Redis and PostgreSQL
Support communication and backend integrations for our fleet of Brilliant Controls (IoT)
Mentor engineers, improve architecture quality, and drive backend best practices
Architect, manage, and extend our AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Packer, and related tools
Improve and scale our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines
Deploy, manage, and debug Linux servers and container-based systems
Enhance observability using systems like Prometheus and Grafana to detect issues proactively
Maintain infrastructure, tools, dependencies, and security posture
Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver new features and refine existing experiences
Lead and collaborate on reliability improvements, workflow simplification, and operational best practices across the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in backend engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Deep experience with Python, modern programming languages, and shell scripting
Strong expertise with AWS and core cloud infrastructure services
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Strong background in Linux systems
Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and caching systems (Redis)
Background with gRPC, distributed systems
Excellent communication skills and experience leading technical initiatives
Preferred
Experience with GraphQL and REST API design
Strong interest and hands-on experimentation with LLMs or AI agents
Background with real-time data communication
Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Work with Prometheus, Grafana, and observability pipelines
Experience supporting IoT systems or device fleets
Familiarity with advanced AWS patterns and tooling (VPC networking, IAM, autoscaling)
An interest in video streaming protocols (WebRTC, RTSP)
Company
Brilliant Smart Home
From lights, music, climate, security, video doorbells to whatever comes next, Brilliant NextGen makes interacting with all smart devices simple by building controls that are easy for everyone.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$73.7MKey Investors
August Capital
2025-09-04Series Unknown· $9.7M
2021-08-30Series B· $40M
2021-01-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steven Stanek
Cofounder & CTO
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