Software Engineer - Agent Team
Builds and evolves event-driven backend services that communicate with 2M+ Automox endpoint agents, plus owning the frontend half of features. Core stack: Go/Java/TypeScript, AWS, Kafka/MQTT, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Vue. Remote within the US; no visa sponsorship.
- Compensation
- $122K–$160K / yr
- Location
- Remote - US
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3-5 years of experience designing, developing, testing, and monitoring applications deployed in a high availability SaaS environment
- Professional experience shipping frontend features in a modern JavaScript framework using TypeScript
- Experience building production applications in AWS with strong emphasis on security best practices
- Familiarity scaling microservices, websockets, real-time messaging (Kafka, MQTT), non-relational databases like DynamoDB, and DevOps
- Excellent communicator who thrives in a cross-functional remote team environment
- Ability to pass federal, state, county background check and complete local in-person verification
Nice to have
- Programming experience in Golang or Java (polyglots considered)
- Experience building desktop or cross-platform applications
- Experience with software that runs on customer endpoints across macOS, Windows, or Linux (agents, installers, system services)
- Experience writing automated end-to-end tests (Python, Playwright, or similar)
Full description
Are you ready to own something big? Automox is turning IT admins into IT heroes by replacing traditional tools with our award winning cloud-native endpoint management platform. Our product works autonomously and so do our teams. We value a ‘one team’ mentality where everyone’s unique skills contribute to an environment that encourages collaboration and ownership. At Automox you’re enabled to do your best work, grow your career, and have an impact that will be noticeable. WE ARE A_TOMOX… all that’s missing is U!
OUR TECH STACK
- Backend Languages: Go, TypeScript, Java, PHP
- Frontend Languages: TypeScript, Vue 3, Tauri (Rust)
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS
- Databases/Data Tools: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, S3
OVERVIEW
Our Engineering team builds products that autonomously manage endpoint configuration, security, and patching across Windows, macOS, and Linux devices. We value a "one team" mentality, empowering our engineers with autonomy, collaboration, and meaningful ownership of impactful solutions. At Automox, you’ll do your best work, grow your career, and see the direct impact of your contributions.
You are a curious software developer who is dedicated to your craft and enjoys solving big problems; you write code that you are proud of and can hit the ground running with support from the team. You understand that SaaS software delivery necessitates innovation and speed of execution. You want to be a part of a creative and enterprising team with challenging problems to solve. You pride yourself in owning problems but don’t want to work in a vacuum to solve them. Collaborating with the team to come up with the best solution for your customer is what fuels your fire.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
- Research, design, develop, secure and solutions that facilitate communications with over 2 millionAutomox agents deployed globally.
- Extend, enhance, and evolve event driven services to provide new and exciting features in the Automox platform and in our endpoint software.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by testing, performance tuning, refactoring, making usability improvements, and automation.
- Evaluate technical options, make a clear recommendation, and move forward in a way that invites feedback and iteration.
- Operate with a quality-first mindset. Your approach to testing sets you apart from your peers.
- Make data-driven decisions. You understand the impact of your development before it reaches production.
BACKGROUND AND SKILLS REQUIRED
- Programming experience in Golang or Java is preferred although we'll consider polyglots. The right candidate will show versatility writing and developing software in a variety of languages over their career.