Staff Software Engineer - School Safety Platform

GoGuardian is an outcomes-focused learning company that develops K-12 solutions to support effective teaching, equitable engagement, and student safety. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and implementation of new school safety products, build reliable distributed systems and integrations, and help define technical strategy for products used in real-world school environments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production
• Drive technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world environments
• Build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, communication systems, hardware devices, and external data sources
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions
• Mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and help shape the technical culture of a growing organization
• Make thoughtful technology decisions that balance customer impact, operational complexity, speed of execution, and long-term maintainability

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production software systems
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex backend or full-stack systems end-to-end
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications
• Experience building integration-heavy platforms involving third-party APIs, webhooks, data synchronization, and identity systems (OAuth, SAML, SSO)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including system design, data modeling, observability, reliability, performance, and security
• Experience handling sensitive data and building systems where privacy, security, and compliance are architectural requirements
• Demonstrated success delivering 0-to-1 products or major platform initiatives in environments with significant ambiguity
• Proven ability to influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and lead through collaboration rather than authority
• Real-time, high-reliability, or operationally critical systems
• Distributed, event-driven, or edge-to-cloud architectures
• IoT platforms, connected devices, device fleet management, or hardware integrations
• Software platforms that interact with physical devices, kiosks, peripherals, sensors, or other endpoint technologies
• Physical security, operational technology, critical infrastructure, or other environments where reliability and resilience are essential
• Large-scale distributed systems that integrate with numerous third-party platforms and external systems