Senior Software Engineer, Motorola Solutions

• If you enjoy building resilient distributed systems, shipping to production frequently, and raising the bar on platform reliability and developer velocity, this role is for you
• US Citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract
• 5+ years building and operating highly scalable, highly available software systems
• Strong proficiency in Java and modern backend development (Spring Boot and common enterprise patterns)
• Experience designing and implementing APIs and distributed system integrations
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP welcome)
• Hands-on experience with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration experience)
• Strong fundamentals: data structures, OOP, networking basics, reliability patterns
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases (MySQL preferred)
• Experience working in an Agile environment with strong cross-functional communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
• Bachelors degree with 8+ years of software development/engineering and/or full stack experience
• AND 5+ years building and operating highly scalable, highly available software systems
• AND 4+ years of Java experience
• AND 3 years of experience in cloud platforms
• AND 3+ years of Docker and Kubernetes experience
• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract
• Travel Requirements: None
• 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

Desirable

• Rave Mobile Safety, a Motorola Solutions company, makes complex emergency response simple by building easy to use, trustworthy critical communication and collaboration software
• Rave’s platform helps 9-1-1 call centers serve their communities, schools create a safe learning environment, and corporations protect their global workforce by helping them prepare better, respond faster, and communicate effectively during emergencies
• Rave’s solutions were utilized in 40 million incidents representing billions of individual communications in 2022 alone
• This is your opportunity to become a key contributor in a rapid growth SaaS company while representing a product suite that makes an impact on people’s lives
• Rave Mobile Safety is building and evolving the messaging platform that powers over a billion critical alerts each year across SMS, email, push notifications, and voice
• This work sits at the center of life-safety communications—where reliability, scale, and speed matter every day
• We’re investing heavily in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and modern engineering practices
• Build and ship cloud-native backend services in Java using Spring Boot, focused on high-throughput messaging and workflow
• Design and implement microservices and APIs that are secure, observable, and built to scale in a multi-tenant SaaS environment
• Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, and Operations to deliver features that are reliable, measurable, and production-ready
• Improve platform resilience and performance through smart architecture, instrumentation, load testing, and pragmatic optimization
• Build modern delivery workflows: CI/CD, automated testing, and safe deployments (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery)
• Contribute to platform modernization (incremental evolution, not “big bang” rewrites), with an emphasis on maintainability and operational excellence
• Support the integration and operationalization of emerging technologies and services within our production environment
• Tech environment (what we’re building toward):
• Backend: Java (modern versions), Spring Boot, API-first services (REST; gRPC where useful)
• Architecture: microservices, event-driven patterns, multi-tenant SaaS
• Cloud & runtime: AWS preferred; Docker + Kubernetes (cloud-native containers)
• Data: SQL databases (MySQL preferred) and strong data modeling practices
• Frontend: Experience with modern frameworks such as Vue, React, or Angular
• Operational excellence: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response readiness