Lead Software Engineer – Fleet Management
About The Position
SafelyYou’s passionate mission is to empower safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, significantly improving outcomes for residents while increasing peace of mind for families and reducing costs for communities. Originating in 2015 as the doctoral research of CEO George Netscher—and inspired by his own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease—SafelyYou was spun out of UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, one of the top five AI research groups in the world. And today, our company is solving critical challenges in senior living, from resident falls and ER visits to staffing concerns, length of stay, and NOI. All helping ensure that communities can focus on improved care for residents while still reaching their financial goals. SafelyYou is one of five most innovative fall technologies referenced in the Senate Falls Report (2019), a winner of the McKnight’s Tech Partner of the Year, and has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20 list, which recognizes companies making people’s lives better through innovation. We’re seeking a Lead Software Engineer (P5) to drive technical leadership on our Fleet Management team, which is responsible for the deployment, observability, and lifecycle of software across tens of thousands of edge devices. These devices are critical to SafelyYou’s ability to detect falls and deliver meaningful insights to care staff. If you love distributed systems, reliability engineering, and “make it work in production at scale” problems, you’ll feel at home here. This is a hands-on technical leadership role (~70–80% IC work) with mentorship responsibilities, not a people-management position.
Requirements
- Professional experience with Go (Golang) in production systems
- Prior experience in IoT, edge devices, embedded, or hardware-software interfacing
- Experience with distributed systems: deployment safety, reliability, incident response, or operating software at scale
- Comfort in Linux environments, plus strong debugging and performance instincts
- Ability to own systems end-to-end: design → implementation → rollout → monitoring → iteration
- Strong technical communicator and mentor - ready to guide P1–P4 engineers
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with OTA upgrade pipelines, rollback mechanisms, and CI/CD tooling for device fleets
- Exposure to healthcare, compliance-sensitive, or mission-critical systems
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other cloud-native tools
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of Go-based edge services used in real-time fall detection systems
- Own our OTA pipeline: ensure safe, scalable, and observable deployment of software to over 60K devices
- Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, and production readiness of the fleet of sensors
- Guide and coach a team of engineers, reviewing designs and helping others grow through mentorship
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Hardware, AI, and Operations teams to deliver reliable end-to-end outcomes
- Set the tone for high-impact engineering through design reviews, technical leadership, and reliability-focused thinking
Benefits
- A mission-driven company culture
- Fully remote
- Competitive salary & benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401k Program
- Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
- Non-accrual PTO
- Growth Potential
- Company Retreats
- Medical & Family/Parental Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
