Senior Software Engineer I – Backend & AI-Enabled
everbridge · Posted Oct 7
Critical event management, emergency mass notification, and enterprise resilience software solutions
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About the role
Everbridge builds SaaS applications for critical event management and enterprise safety workflows, delivered on cloud-native infrastructure. This backend role designs and maintains Java and Spring Boot services, RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems, while managing AWS infrastructure as code with Salt and Terraform. The engineer also drives observability, reliability, production support, and AI-assisted development practices across the team.
What you will do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Salt and Terraform to provision, manage, and support AWS infrastructure for SaaS applications.
- Build and evolve RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems that support business-critical workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, to deliver seamless end-to-end product experiences.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools and practices to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and code reviews while maintaining high standards of quality and security.
- Drive observability, reliability, automation, and operational excellence across services, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Participate in architecture discussions, technical design reviews, and engineering best-practice initiatives.
- Support production systems through on-call participation, incident management, and continuous service improvements.
- Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing activities.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building enterprise-grade applications.
- Strong expertise in Java and Spring Boot development.
- Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with hands-on experience using Salt and Terraform.
- Experience designing and building cloud-native backend systems using RESTful APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and related container orchestration technologies.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, performance, reliability, and secure software design principles.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience using AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, Kiro, or similar platforms.
- Ability to critically evaluate, validate, and improve AI-generated code while maintaining quality, security, and maintainability standards.
- Interest in continuously learning and applying emerging AI-assisted development practices.
- Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and production support practices.
- Ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum environments.
Preferred qualifications
- Working knowledge of and modern frontend development practices.
- Building AI-enabled applications, agents, automation workflows.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. is a global enterprise software company that provides critical event management (CEM) and enterprise safety applications to help keep people safe and businesses running. Its platform automates and accelerates operational responses to critical threats, ranging from severe weather and cyberattacks to IT outages and security incidents. Trusted by thousands of global corporations, hospitals, and government entities, Everbridge delivers reliable threat intelligence and mass notification capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Vienna, Virginia, USA
- Funding stage
- Acquired / Private
Funding
Acquired / Private
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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