- Company Name
- Qualcomm
- Job Title
- Senior Staff Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior Staff Engineer – DevOps
**Role Summary**
Lead end‑to‑end system design, integration, and operational excellence for an AI‑driven Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform. Oversee architecture across edge devices, backend services, and both cloud and on‑prem infrastructure to deliver secure, scalable, and highly performant solutions.
**Expectations**
- 10+ years in system engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
- Deep mastery of distributed systems, networking, storage, and system integration.
- Proven expertise with AWS, GCP, or Azure and container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting multi‑layer issues.
- Hands‑on experience with cameras, IoT devices, video streaming, and media processing.
- Background in performance, load, and stress testing of large‑scale distributed systems.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and maintain system‑level integrations between edge devices, backend services, and external systems in cloud or on‑prem environments.
- Manage large‑scale system deployments, configurations, and runtime operations.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally to identify bottlenecks, conduct performance tuning, and improve end‑to‑end reliability.
- Design and implement observability solutions (logging, metrics, tracing, real‑time alerting) to ensure visibility and uptime.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving device firmware, networking, storage, and backend services.
- Drive system validation, stress testing, fault‑tolerance testing, and infrastructure optimization.
**Required Skills**
- System architecture and integration (edge, cloud, on‑prem).
- Cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack.
- Performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis across layers (firmware, networking, storage).
- Knowledge of security and privacy for video surveillance systems.
- Experience with large‑scale distributed system testing (performance, load, stress).
**Required Education & Certifications**
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field **and** ≥6 years experience, **or**
- MS in same fields **and** ≥5 years experience, **or**
- PhD in same fields **and** ≥4 years experience.
No mandatory certifications listed, though cloud or systems certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator) are advantageous.
Santa clara, United states
On site
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09-03-2026