Senior Software Engineer - Device & Cloud Platform

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de l’entreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

Motorola Solution's Access Control Division is redefining how people experience the spaces they move through, starting at the front door. Our mission is to make physical environments smarter, safer, and more seamless through modern access control and automation technology that people rely on every day. We’re building an industry-leading platform on a meaningful scale, and we’re looking for engineers who want to shape the future of physical-meets-digital systems. This is a place where you’ll work on real-world problems that span distributed systems, hardware-adjacent software, security, and high-availability cloud services used by organizations around the world. You’ll join a highly collaborative, team-centric engineering culture that values strong analytical thinking, clean and pragmatic software design, and ownership from idea to production. We’re especially excited about engineers who are curious, adaptable, and comfortable working across multiple technologies, bringing both depth and range to how we build and evolve our platform.

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team that builds and operates the systems connecting our access control hardware to the cloud and to the mobile app. This team owns the cloud services that generate and distribute access credentials to door controllers and phones, the software that runs directly on our access control hardware, and the messaging and caching layers that keep everything in sync in real time. You'll work alongside the engineer who currently owns this area, taking on ownership of specific services and helping scale them as our deployment grows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the cloud services that generate, cache, and dispatch access credentials to door controllers and the mobile app
• Develop and maintain the on-device software that runs on our access control hardware, including its hardware I/O and cloud communication
• Design and tune the distributed caching and storage layer behind credential lookups and delivery
• Own the MQTT-based messaging between devices, phones, and cloud services, including handling message size limits and scaling
• Build and maintain performance-critical C/C++ components shared by the cloud and device software
• Diagnose and fix production issues affecting credential sync, entry visibility, and wireless lock integrations
• Improve test tooling and CI, including Docker-based test environments, fault injection, and data integrity checks
• Participate in architecture discussions and code review for the credential sync protocol across cloud, device, and mobile app
• Collaborate with adjacent teams (mobile, hardware, wireless lock partners) on cross-system issues

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• C/C++ experience, particularly with performance-sensitive code, memory management, and threading
• Strong experience with Python, ideally with Flask or a similar API framework
• Experience with distributed systems, caching layers (Redis or similar), and message-based/pub-sub protocols (MQTT or similar)
• Comfortable working across the stack, from Linux-based embedded/device software up through cloud services
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, and CloudWatch
• Experience with Docker and packaging/deploying software to Linux hosts (Debian packaging a plus)
• Exposure to Go is a plus
• Comfortable debugging low-level or hardware-adjacent issues
• Experience with agile methodologies and rapid iteration cycles

This position is based in Vancouver, BC and the candidate must reside in the Greater Vancouver area, as you will be required to go into the office on a hybrid work schedule.

Target Base Salary Range: $120,000 - 165,000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 5+ years of software development experience

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.

Motorola Solutions adopte, favorise et promeut les principes de diversité, d’équité et d’inclusion. Nous encourageons et accueillons les candidatures de toutes les personnes qualifiées, quelles que soient leur race, origines ethnique, religion ou croyance, orientation sexuelle, identité et expression sexuelle, statut d’anciens combattants ou tout autre statut protégé par la Loi.

Nous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d’être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d’un monde plus sécuritaire.

Si vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.

Nous offrons également des mesures d’adaptation pendant toutes les étapes du processus d’embauche afin de favoriser l’inclusion des personnes vivant avec un  handicap physique et/ou mental. Pour demander un aménagement, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d'aménagement raisonnable afin que nous puissions vous aider.