Arlo
Staff Engineer - Engineering Platform
Milpitas, CA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$155k-$225kDetected 31 days ago
JavaSpringDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentGitSQLNoSQLDynamoDBAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringOAuthComputer VisionCybersecurityLeadershipMentoring
About the role
- You will operate as a senior technical leader-owning architectural direction, elevating engineering standards, and advancing AI-assisted development practices to improve velocity, quality, and governance.
Responsibilities
- Lead modernization of microservices and modular Java platforms.
- Develop high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Optimize systems for scalability, low latency, and reliability under heavy load.
- Drive best practices in observability, security, and system reliability.
- Design and optimize SQL and NoSQL data models for performance and scale.
- Leverage AI tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to accelerate design, refactoring, testing, and modernization while ensuring enterprise-grade quality and security standards.
- Partner with Product, DevOps, SRE, and Security to align engineering initiatives with business goals.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily in Java.
- Strong expertise in Spring Boot and distributed systems architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Advanced experience with SQL and DynamoDB.
- Experience operating high-throughput systems (1M+ requests/min).
- Real-time or event-driven systems expertise (MQTT, streaming).
- Strong understanding of observability, distributed tracing, and performance tuning.
- Solid knowledge of OAuth2/OIDC and security best practices.
- Proven experience building and operating large-scale production systems on AWS (7+ years preferred).
- Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership and mentorship capability.
- The pay range for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at commencement of employment and is expected to be between USD$155,000-225,000/year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including role, job-related knowledge, skills, relevant education and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including bonus, equity, and a full range of benefits. Details of all benefits will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
- We're committed to inclusivity and selecting the strongest candidate-no matter their background. Even if you don't meet every listed qualification, we encourage you to apply. We're happy to support growth in areas essential to the role. Interested in learning more about our workplace? Visit and follow our LinkedIn, and Glassdoor pages to read employee insights and get updates of what it's like to be part of Arlo.
- Arlo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value inclusion and are committed to inclusive, and harassment-free workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on all legally protected statuses in all hiring and employment.
Nice to have
- IoT or event-driven domain experience preferred.
Skills
- Staff Engineer - Engineering Platform
Compensation
- The pay range for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at commencement of employment and is expected to be between USD$155,000-225,000/year.
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