Staff IoT/Platform Engineer

Our Purpose:

At Gardyn, we’re on a mission to make fresh, healthy food accessible to every home. We believe growing food should be simple, sustainable, and joyful and we’re building smart indoor gardening technology that helps people eat better while using fewer natural resources.

We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven company that cares deeply about impact, innovation, and how we show up for one another. Our work is rooted in curiosity, ownership, and thoughtful growth and we’re excited to bring on leaders who want to help scale something meaningful.

The Opportunity:

As our Staff Platform Engineer, you will own and evolve the foundation that powers Gardyn’s connected experience, from device to cloud. This role sits at the intersection of IoT, cloud infrastructure, and reliability, ensuring that our platform is secure, scalable, and built to support both our current fleet and future innovation.

You will play a critical role in shaping how our devices communicate, operate, and improve over time, working across embedded systems, backend services, and infrastructure. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in complex systems, takes pride in long-term ownership, and wants to build a platform that directly impacts how people experience growing food at home.

What You’ll Do:

You will own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Gardyn’s device-to-cloud platform, ensuring a seamless connection between our hardware and backend systems.

• Lead the evolution of our IoT platform across both current and next-generation devices, including OTA updates, provisioning, and fleet management
• Lead and maintain the IoT edge code, running RaspberryPi/STM32. Including: code portability, security, and future edge capabilities.
• Strengthen device and platform security, including authentication, credential management, and protection against unauthorized access
• Build and maintain embedded Linux systems and scalable deployment pipelines for new device platforms
• Improve device-to-cloud communication, ensuring reliability, performance, and secure data exchange
• Own and optimize backend infrastructure, including databases, virtual networks, and operational systems
• Identify and resolve system bottlenecks, technical debt, and reliability risks across the platform
• Establish strong monitoring, alerting, and observability practices to improve system performance and reduce incidents
• Enhance logging, diagnostics, and recovery workflows to enable faster troubleshooting and operational excellence
• Partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other stakeholders to ensure platform decisions support product outcomes

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for a senior, systems-oriented engineer who can think holistically about platform architecture while also diving deep into execution.

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or IoT engineering
• Strong experience in RaspberryPi, STM32, embedded software
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems, ideally involving IoT or edge devices and cloud platforms
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred), event-driven systems, and observability tooling
• Experience building and maintaining reliable, scalable systems with a focus on performance and uptime
• Proficiency in backend technologies such as Python, Node.js, or similar, along with experience working in Linux environments
• Experience working with databases (e.g., MySQL) and managing infrastructure at scale
• Ability to navigate across hardware, backend, and infrastructure domains with a strong sense of ownership
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and drive long-term solutions
• A product-minded approach—understanding how platform decisions impact the end-user experience

Nice to have:

• Experience with embedded systems (C++, embedded Linux, Yocto)
• Background in security practices for IoT or distributed systems
• Experience working in fast-paced, startup environments

Why You'll Love This Role:

• We encourage unconventional thinking.
• We are paving the path for innovation in home-grown food and education.
• We are creating a movement bigger than ourselves that will positively enhance people’s lives.
• We practice radical candor and encourage employees to be authentic and transparent when communicating with all internal employees as well as external vendor relationships.
• We lead with context not control and let you determine the best ways to accomplish your goals.
• We are a wicked smart yet humble team.
• Gardyn embodies the start-up culture with the success to back it up.

We provide competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings designed to support you at work and in life. These include: medical, dental, and vision coverage, employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) with company matching, unlimited paid time off, paid company holidays, Take Care Fridays during the summer, a fully remote work environment, education reimbursement, travel reimbursement, a Gardyn device and membership, and exceptional paid maternity and paternity leave options. The pay range for this role is $170,000 – $190,000 per year, based on experience, skills, and market alignment.