Senior Platform Engineer

Summary:

Join ADT's engineering team to help build the next-generation monitoring platform designed to support Life Safety events and serve as the backbone of ADT Monitoring. As a Product Engineer, you will develop, test, deploy, and support Java Spring Boot services running in Docker and Kubernetes environments. You will contribute to event-driven platform capabilities that support signal ingestion, event processing, monitoring workflows, agent experiences, operational reliability, and secure delivery of mission-critical services. This role is ideal for engineers who have foundational professional software development experience and want to grow into building highly available, scalable, and resilient systems that directly support customer safety, monitoring center operations, and ADT's future monitoring ecosystem.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Software Development

• Develop and maintain backend services and platform capabilities for the monitoring platform.

• Build Java Spring Boot services that support Life Safety event processing, monitoring workflows, APIs, and operational platform functions.

• Participate in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support of new capabilities.

• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code aligned with team engineering standards.

• Troubleshoot and resolve software defects across service, API, integration, and runtime layers.

Backend and Event-Driven Platform Development

• Contribute to microservices and APIs developed using Java and Spring Boot.

• Support event-driven and asynchronous processing workflows used for signal intake, transformation, event creation, downstream actions, and monitoring operations.

• Assist with REST API implementation, integration work, and service-to-service communication patterns.

• Use object-oriented design, software design patterns, and engineering best practices to build reliable platform services.

Containerization, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native Engineering

• Build and support containerized services using Docker.

• Deploy and operate services in Kubernetes-based environments with guidance from senior engineers, platform engineering, and DevOps teams.

• Assist with configuration, environment management, deployment validation, and operational readiness activities.

• Support scalable and resilient service patterns for mission-critical monitoring workloads.

Data, Integration, and Monitoring Workflows

• Support data models and persistence patterns.

• Participate in integration efforts with monitoring systems, agent-facing workflows, internal services, and downstream operational systems.

• Help validate that Life Safety events are processed accurately, consistently, and with the reliability expected of ADT Monitoring.

• Support observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.

Quality, Security, and Collaboration

• Write unit, integration, and service-level tests for all platform capabilities.

• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, release readiness reviews, and team technical discussions.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, DevOps, QA, Security, SRE, Monitoring Operations, and other engineering teams.

• Support secure coding practices, operational controls, and compliance-aware engineering for safety and monitoring environments.

• Continuously learn new technologies, tools, and engineering practices.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills and Competencies:

Backend

• Java

• Spring Boot

• REST APIs

• Object-oriented programming

• Basic understanding of microservices and distributed systems

• Event-driven and asynchronous processing concepts

Containers and Platform

• Docker

• Kubernetes fundamentals

• Containerized application deployment

• Basic understanding of service configuration, runtime environments, and operational readiness

Cloud, DevOps, and Tools

• Git source control

• CI/CD concepts

• Build and deployment automation concepts

• Logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting fundamentals

• Familiarity with cloud-native engineering concepts

Core Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Strong communication and teamwork skills

• Ability to work in a collaborative engineering environment

• Attention to detail and commitment to quality

• Ownership mindset and desire to grow as a software engineer

• Interest in building reliable systems that support Life Safety and real-time monitoring operations

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical education/training.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience building and supporting production software systems.

• Experience developing backend applications using Java or another object-oriented programming language.

• Familiarity with Spring Boot or comparable backend application frameworks.

• Understanding of REST APIs, software development fundamentals, source control, testing, and release processes.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud-native application deployment concepts.

• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies, operational requirements, and platform standards.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Java Spring Boot services in production environments.

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or similar container and orchestration technologies.

• Experience with event-driven systems, messaging, queues, streaming, or asynchronous processing.

• Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical, safety, security, monitoring, IoT, telecommunications, or regulated platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment validation, and observability tools.

• Familiarity with SQL databases, schema migrations, data integrity, and service-level data access patterns.

• Interest in cloud-native systems, distributed systems, platform reliability, and modern software engineering practices.

• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools is a plus.

Required Licensing or Certifications:

• None required.

• Relevant certifications in Java, Kubernetes, Cloud Technologies, Agile Practices, Security, or Software Development are preferred.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment with a combination of office and remote work.

• Frequent collaboration with engineering, architecture, product, QA, DevOps, Security, SRE, and monitoring operations teams.

• Work may involve production, pre-production, and mission-critical monitoring platform environments.

• May require participation in release support, operational readiness, incident review, and production support activities.

Travel:

• As job requires.

In the event a position is commission-based, compensation is solely based on the individual's sales volume. This applies only to commission roles.

Los Angeles Applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Philadelphia Applicants: Background checks will be conducted during the employment process. Any information will be reviewed through an individualized assessment in accordance with the Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance.

ADT is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. ADT strives to ensure every employee and applicant feels valued. Visit us at jobs.adt.com/diversity to learn more.