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Our platform, Cobalt Monitoring Intelligence, is a hybrid AI system, cloud-hosted with edge-deployed hardware, that provides human-verified, real-time monitoring of surveillance cameras, alarms, and robots across enterprise locations.\nWe’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer: Integrations Lead to own the integrations that make autonomous security monitoring work. You will manage the connections between Cobalt’s platform and our customers' enterprise security ecosystems, including access control, alarms, video, and ticketing tools, spanning everything from legacy on-premise hardware to modern cloud APIs. This is a foundational ownership role with clear potential to shape the future of our integration strategy, including a planned migration of most services from async Python to Rust.\nResponsibilities:\nFull ownership of the integration service lifecycle, including reliability, roadmap execution, and long-term technical vision.\nArchitect and maintain our asynchronous integration service, currently Python, with a planned migration to Rust for most applications, connecting to client systems (ACS, VMS, and alarms) via REST, MQTT, and SignalR.\nExpand integration capabilities through new connectors and webhook handlers designed for large-scale enterprise event ingestion.\nDevelop outbound layers to orchestrate automated responses, such as lockdowns and security escalations, within customer ecosystems.\nMonitor system health using alerting and retry logic to ensure resilient performance and graceful degradation of dependencies.\nConstruct test harnesses and mock environments to debug complex issues across third-party APIs and legacy on-premise hardware.\nCollaborate with Sales Engineering and internal stakeholders to scope technical requirements and drive new integrations.\nAct as a primary technical responder for integration-specific incidents, performing deep-dive debugging across vendor platforms.\nLead strategic migrations to Kubernetes and identify opportunities to integrate new communication and notification technologies.\nQualifications:\n5+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent on integrations, platform work, or API development\nStrong experience building asynchronous, event-driven services in any language (e.g. async runtimes, concurrency, backpressure, non-blocking I/O)\nWorking proficiency in Python\nHands-on experience with third-party APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures across diverse vendors\nExperience building resilient integration pipelines, including retry logic, backoff strategies, health monitoring, and graceful degradation\nSystematic debugging skills, tracing problems across your platform, a third-party API, and a customer's on-premise hardware, with comfort working through inconsistent vendor documentation, legacy protocols, and customer-specific configurations\nA track record of taking ownership of a service or system and improving its reliability over time\nComfort instrumenting and operating services with metrics and tracing (Datadog or equivalent)\nFamiliarity with Docker and containerized deployments like ECS\nNice to Haves:\nExperience with or strong interest in Rust\nDeep async Python experience (asyncio, aiohttp, or similar)\nKubernetes or EKS experience\nPhysical security systems (LenelS2, Genetec, Brivo, C•CURE, Netbox, Acre) or other enterprise ACS/VMS platforms\nStreaming and eventing protocols such as SignalR, MQTT, and WebSocket\nDjango and webhook-handler experience\nExperience with GraphQL APIs for internal use\nEnterprise multi-tenant SaaS experience, and SOC 2 or GDPR-aware development\nWhy Work for Us?:\nCompetitive salary, equity, and full benefits (medical, vision, dental). Flexible work arrangements. A proven platform, an expanding customer base, and the opportunity to shape the engineering org at an inflection point.\nCompensation:$160,000 - $200,000 annually, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications. This position may also be eligible for equity.\nBenefits:Eligible employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage; an HSA with company contribution (for eligible plans); FSA options; company-paid life and disability insurance; a 401(k) plan with company matching; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; and an Employee Assistance Program.\nApplication Deadline:Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, or until August 31, 2026.\nCobalt AI is an equal employment opportunity employer and values diversity. 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