Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NRG Energy is a leading company at the intersection of energy and home services, dedicated to creating a smarter and more connected future. They are seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead backend engineering teams, overseeing the backend cloud services and APIs that support their smart home and energy management platforms.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing organization of software engineers and SREs
- Foster a culture of reliability, operational excellence, and engineering rigor
- Define career paths, set performance expectations, and invest in the growth of every engineer
- Partner with recruiting to attract top platform engineering talent
- Set the multi-year technical direction and roadmap for the Platform organization, balancing near-term delivery with long-term technical health
- Define the architectural vision for Vivint's cloud platform, ensuring it is resilient, secure, cost-efficient, and scalable for future growth
- Drive modern platform practices: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and automation that improve backend delivery velocity and quality
- Own the reliability, availability, and performance of the backend services that power the Vivint smart home experience
- Establish and enforce SLOs, error budgets, and incident management practices that reflect Vivint's commitment to customer uptime
- Manage infrastructure cost-effectively as the platform grows
Skills
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles overseeing backend or SRE teams
- Deep expertise in cloud and data center architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale backend service design
- Strong background in container orchestration and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience establishing SLOs, on-call practices, and incident response programs in a 24/7 production environment
- Proven ability to define and execute multi-year platform roadmaps in a cloud or IoT product company
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- Some travel is required
- Experience building backends for IoT or connected-device platforms
- Familiarity with major cloud providers
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Familiarity with streaming and messaging technologies (Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT)
- Experience operating MongoDB at scale
- Background in platform security including API security, secrets management, and zero-trust networking
Benefits
- Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
- Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
- Medical/dental/vision/life coverage
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Employee Resource Groups
- Annual Bonus
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Quarterly Innovation Weeks
Company Overview
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