We’re a high-tech home security company that’s passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.
We are partnering with a local India firm called Kaamwork to build out an Engineering presence in India.
Why are we hiring?
Within our Tools and Automation organization, the Test Platform Services (TPS) team builds and operates the platforms and automation that validate SimpliSafe’s end-to-end ecosystem — spanning the full product stack: connected cameras and sensors, base stations, firmware, cloud services, monitoring workflows, and mobile applications.
We enable scalable, production-like validation across hardware, firmware, and distributed software systems to ensure our devices behave correctly in real-world conditions and that critical customer journeys function reliably before reaching production.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale the validation platforms that power system-level confidence across engineering. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who thinks in systems, not scripts, and wants to solve complex platform and infrastructure challenges at the intersection of devices, cloud services, and automation.
This is a highly collaborative position partnering closely with Infrastructure, Backend, Firmware, Monitoring, and Product teams. It is ideal for an engineer who wants to have broad technical impact by building internal platforms and tooling that make validation faster, more reliable, and more scalable.
What You’ll Do- Design, build, and evolve scalable validation platforms and services used across engineering
- Develop and maintain virtual device infrastructure, simulation capabilities, and production-like validation environments
- Build orchestration systems, APIs, and tooling that enable self-service and CI-integrated validation workflows
- Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and cost efficiency of validation infrastructure
- Support performance, load, and resilience testing capabilities across validation platforms
- Partner cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Backend, Firmware, Monitoring, and Product teams to ensure validation systems evolve with product and architectural complexity
- Raise the bar on engineering quality by contributing strong system design, clean implementation, and pragmatic technical leadership within the team
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud-native services
- Strong software design and object-oriented programming skills, with hands-on experience in Python and/or JavaScript
- Experience building and operating systems in AWS or similar cloud environments
- Experience building APIs, automation tooling, internal platforms, or developer-facing systems
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across service boundaries and system layers
- Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, or ephemeral environments
- Experience with device simulation, embedded systems, firmware-cloud integration, or IoT environments
- Experience building validation, orchestration, performance, or resilience testing systems
- Experience collaborating across teams and driving technical improvements in a growing engineering organization
- Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
- Aim High - Always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar.
- No Ego - Maintaining a “no job too small” attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style.
- One Team - Taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
- Lift As We Climb - Investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed.
- Lean & Nimble - Working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.
We wholeheartedly embrace and actively seek applications from all individuals, no matter how they identify. We are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we believe our work is enriched when we incorporate a multitude of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We want everyone who works here to thrive and contribute to not only our mission of keeping every home secure, but also to making our workplace safe and supportive for others.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud-native services
- Strong software design and object-oriented programming skills, with hands-on experience in Python and/or JavaScript
- Experience building and operating systems in AWS or similar cloud environments
- Experience building APIs, automation tooling, internal platforms, or developer-facing systems
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across service boundaries and system layers
SimpliSafe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SimpliSafe and has not been reviewed or approved by SimpliSafe.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with multiple plan options, expanded mental‑health access, and integrated programs like fertility support and virtual physical therapy. Recent updates cite no employee rate increases and refreshed vendors, reinforcing perceived value.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended fully paid bonding time for birthing and non‑birthing parents. Family‑building support through fertility, adoption, and surrogacy programs is integrated with medical plans.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off policies include take‑what‑you‑need PTO for exempt staff and generous PTO structures for non‑exempt employees. Hybrid work and a paid volunteer day contribute additional flexibility that feedback suggests is valued.
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What We Do
Being safe should be simple. SimpliSafe designs home security systems that are wireless, cellular and so user-friendly they can be set up by anyone in minutes. An ever-expanding arsenal of sensors and the SimpliSafe security camera, SimpliCam, provides all-encompassing protection while integrated apps make comprehensive system control possible from anywhere. But SimpliSafe is way more than its great products. It’s also seamless 24/7 professional monitoring, without the long-term contracts and sky-high prices of traditional alarm companies. Currently, SimpliSafe protects over 2 million Americans and that number is quickly rising. In 2014, the company was ranked in The Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the nation with a 3,076% 3-year growth rate. SimpliSafe is ushering in a new era — one where anyone anywhere can have a security system that’s not only simple, but also on the cutting edge. Want to be a part of a fast-paced environment in the heart of Boston? Check us out.
