Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer — emPower

Do you love working with connected devices, automation, and real-world systems? Have you automated your own home, built integrations across smart devices, or thought deeply about how cloud software should control physical systems reliably?

Alarm.com is looking for a versatile Principal Software Engineer to help lead architecture and engineering for our emPower team, which builds software for IoT, smart home automation, energy management, HVAC, water, and connected-device control experiences. This role is an IC role that sits at the intersection of cloud services, physical devices, mobile and web applications, automation logic, data processing, and customer-facing product experiences.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership across teams. You will help define architecture, guide major design decisions, mentor engineers, and lead the evolution of systems that must be reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable as our connected-device platform continues to grow.

Alarm.com combines the product breadth and technical scale of a mature connected-device platform with the collaborative culture of a smaller engineering organization. This role is ideal for someone who wants to work across software, hardware, data, and product domains whi