Staff Developer, Software Development
Western Digital1 month ago
Base Salary
$124k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, deployment, and long-term support of scalable web applications, APIs, and supporting services.
- Drive software initiatives through requirements discovery, solution design, implementation, testing, release planning, deployment, and operational support.
- Partner with customer support, engineering, quality assurance, and manufacturing stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Set technical direction for frontend and backend development, framework selection, system design, integrations, and engineering standards.
- Design and optimize relational data models, database schemas, queries, and integrations.
- Resolve complex application, data, and system integration issues and implement durable corrective and preventive actions.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and improve software design, testing, documentation, observability, and maintainability practices.
- Influence technical roadmaps, legacy-system modernization, developer productivity, and platform reliability efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline.
- At least 8 years of professional software development experience in C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
- At least 8 years of experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Strong experience building modern web frontends with Vue.js, React, Angular, Bootstrap, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong experience with server-side web development using C# and ASP.NET or comparable backend frameworks.
- Strong experience with relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
- Experience leading technical projects from requirements through production release and ongoing support.
- Experience defining architecture, technical standards, and scalable design approaches for business applications.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include 10+ years of full-stack engineering experience, deep C# and ASP.NET expertise, SQL performance tuning across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL, legacy web application modernization experience, Agile development familiarity, technical mentoring experience, and experience using AI-assisted development tools with secure coding and validation practices.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life, accident, and disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, an employee assistance program, supplemental benefits, tuition reimbursement, transit benefits, legal and pet insurance, an employee stock purchase plan, and a WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Eligible employees may be considered for short-term incentives, long-term incentives, restricted stock units or cash equivalents, and other discretionary bonus or equity programs.
- The position is listed as an exempt role at the Irvine Office location; the anticipated application deadline is January 6, 2027, subject to earlier closure.
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About Western Digital
Western Digital designs and manufactures data storage devices and platforms, including hard disk drives and solid-state drives, for consumer electronics, enterprises, and hyperscale data centers. The public company, founded in 1970 and headquartered in San Jose, sells under the Western Digital and SanDisk brands through OEM and retail channels, and supplies cloud platforms and PC markets worldwide.