Staff Software Engineer (School Safety Platform)

Join GoGuardian, a company dedicated to helping every student learn, thrive, and feel safe. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in building innovative school safety products that directly impact student safety. You will lead the architecture, technical design, and implementation of new products, drive technical strategy, and mentor other engineers. This is an opportunity to work on complex engineering challenges and make a meaningful impact on students, educators, and school communities.

• Lead the architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems, ensuring the delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems.
• Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and help shape the technical culture of a growing organization, influencing technical direction and leading through collaboration.
• If you're energized by ambiguous problems, building new products from the ground up, and creating technology that delivers meaningful impact for students and educators, we'd love to talk with you
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex backend or full-stack systems end-to-end
• 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and security
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications
• Experience handling sensitive data and building systems where privacy, security, and compliance are architectural requirements
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority
• Demonstrated success delivering 0-to-1 products or major platform initiatives in environments with significant ambiguity
• Experience building integration-heavy platforms involving third-party APIs, webhooks, data synchronization, and identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO)
• We recognize that exceptional engineers often bring deep expertise in one domain rather than every area listed below
• Candidates are not expected to have experience across all of the areas listed below. We welcome engineers from a variety of backgrounds who have built complex systems operating at the intersection of software, devices, and real-world operations
• Experience in one or more of the following areas is valuable:
• Real-time, high-reliability, or operationally critical systems
• Distributed, event-driven, or edge-to-cloud architectures
• IoT platforms, connected devices, device fleet management, or hardware integrations
• Software platforms that interact with physical devices, kiosks, peripherals, sensors, or other endpoint technologies
• Physical security, operational technology, critical infrastructure, or other environments where reliability and resilience are essential
• Large-scale distributed systems that integrate with numerous third-party platforms and external systems