Everbridge

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 21 Days Ago

Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

139K-199K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology • Software • Consulting

The Role

The Senior Software Engineer will design and deliver scalable systems for a high-availability SaaS platform, enhance system reliability, and mentor other engineers.

Summary Generated by Built In

Everbridge is a global leader in critical event management, helping organisations and governments respond to the moments that matter most. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building and scaling the systems that keep people safe and businesses running.

This is a fully remote role (US-based) where you will work on highly scalable, mission-critical SaaS systems at the intersection of backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms.

In this role you’ll help you will help design and operate systems that must be highly available, resilient, and performant at scale. Your work will directly impact how customers rely on Everbridge during critical events, where reliability and speed are non-negotiable.

What you'll do:

Lead the design and delivery of scalable, distributed systems powering a high-availability SaaS platform
Build and evolve backend services and platform components using Java and cloud-native architectures
Own and improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across AWS environments
Define and implement infrastructure as code (Terraform) to enable consistent, repeatable deployments
Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions in partnership with engineering leadership
Establish and enhance observability practices including monitoring, alerting, and tracing
Lead incident response and postmortems, turning learnings into long-term reliability improvements
Optimize and scale our Snowflake data platform, improving performance and cost efficiency
Partner with data teams to support robust, scalable data pipelines and analytics (Looker)
Improve CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows to increase velocity and quality
Mentor engineers and help elevate engineering standards and best practices across teams

What you'll bring:

7+ years of experience building and operating production-grade software systems, ideally in SaaS environments
Strong experience with distributed systems and scalable architectures
Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure automation (Terraform)
Experience owning systems in production, including performance, reliability, and incident management
Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and system design fundamentals
Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or similar
Ability to influence technical direction and collaborate across teams
Proficiency in Java and experience building backend services (good to have)
Familiarity with data platforms (Snowflake or similar) and data-intensive systems (good to have)

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Everbridge ranges from $139,000 - $198,500 and may also include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Everbridge offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, disability income benefits, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements.

Fair Chance Statement US & Canada

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in compliance with all applicable Federal, Provincial/State and Local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act and any local County Fair Chance Ordinance (or local equivalent). Pursuant to these and other relevant regulations, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the law.

For roles subject to background checks, the following material job duties may be affected by an applicant’s criminal history:

- Access to sensitive or confidential information, such as financial records, proprietary data, or client information.

- Management of cash, company funds, or other valuable assets.

- Work in environments requiring heightened security measures.

- Compliance with contractual or regulatory requirements specific to the position.

We evaluate each applicant's criminal history individually, considering its nature, timing, and relevance to the specific job duties, while maintaining our commitment to fair hiring practices and promoting workplace equity.

About Everbridge

Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Top Skills

AWS

Datadog

Java

Looker

Prometheus

Snowflake

Terraform

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The Company

Belfast

1,437 Employees

Year Founded: 2002

What We Do

Keeping People Safe and Businesses Running. Faster. Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events in order to Keep People Safe and Businesses Running™. During public safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over 5,300 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress on executing response plans.