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Director of Engineering Brilliant Smart Home · United States $150k–190k 47 days ago Remote Engineering

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Skip to main content LinkedIn Jobs Clear text Clear text Join now Sign in Director of Engineering Brilliant Smart Home United States 3 weeks ago Over 200 applicants See who Brilliant Smart Home has hired for this role Apply Save Director of Engineering - Backend Engineer (10+ years experience) Company Description: Brilliant NextGen is transforming the smart home experience for builders, home owners, smart home professionals, and condos/apartment buildings. Our award winning, all-in-one control platform, mobile app and connected ecosystem make it easy for integrators, builders, and homeowners to create beautifully designed, easily approachable intelligent living spaces. With a focus on design, simplicity, and performance, we’re making smart home technology feel easy, intuitive, and approachable for all. We’re a fast-growing, Series-A team passionate about bridging design and technology to elevate the smart home experience for customers. If you’re excited about building a category-defining brand in smart home innovation and shaping how people experience connected living, we’d love to meet you. Role Description: As the Director of Engineering at Brilliant, you will play a key player/coach role in leading a small team of four full-time employee engineers and three full time engineering contractors who architect, build, and maintain the systems that power the Brilliant ecosystem. In addition, you will have a hands-on role working across our full backend and infrastructure stack, spanning API development, distributed backend systems, AWS infrastructure, DevOps automation, and IoT communications to ensure the stability of the platform and deliver new features meaningful to the growth of the company. This role is ideal for someone who has engineering team management experience, understands modern large-scale distributed systems, and is an expert in deploying with LLMs and AI agents to push the boundaries of what’s possible in modern software development. Reporting to the CEO, this position plays an important role in the leadership and strategy of the company. You’ll collaborate closely with the mobile, firmware, and backend engineers on the team, product managers, designers, and the leadership team to plan and deliver new features, ensure system reliability, and evolve our cloud architecture. You’ll also help guide technical strategy, mentor teammates, and elevate engineering standards across the organization. Responsibilities Leadership & Management Lead a team of 7 engineers (FTE + Contract). Estimate work efforts, collaborate on requirements, and plan dev sprints in coordination with Product leadership. Participate in the strategic direction of the company in collaboration with the rest of the Senior Leadership team. Backend Engineering 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. DevOps & Infrastructure 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. Cross-Functional Collaboration 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. Qualifications 10+ years of experience in backend engineering; with at least 3 years of engineering team management 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 Qualifications 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) Compensation: $150,000 -$190,000/Year + Equity + Subsidized Benefits Show more Seniority level Director Employment type Full-time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Computers and Electronics Manufacturing Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Brilliant Smart Home by 2x See who you know Get notified about new Director of Engineering jobs in United States. 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