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GoGuardian is building a new generation of school safety products to help schools respond faster, operate more effectively, and create safer learning environments. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be an early technical leader defining and building category-defining products where software, hardware, and operational reliability intersect.
You'll own architecture, technical design, and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production. This role involves designing scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems that operate reliably in real-world school environments. You'll build and maintain integrations with third-party platforms, identity providers, communication systems, hardware devices, and external data sources.
Key responsibilities include driving technical strategy and engineering excellence across multiple teams and systems, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to translate customer needs into practical technical solutions, and mentoring engineers while raising engineering standards. You'll make thoughtful technology decisions that balance customer impact, operational complexity, speed of execution, and long-term maintainability.
Required qualifications: 8+ years building and operating production software systems with a 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.
This is a rare opportunity to work on technically challenging problems at the intersection of software, hardware, distributed systems, and operational reliability while building products that have meaningful and lasting impact on students, educators, and school communities.
