Staff Software Engineer, Components & Device Actions
SmartThings2 days ago
Base Salary
$139k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term technical strategy for one or more Components and Device Actions domains.
- Lead large, ambiguous, multi-team initiatives from initial design through production launch.
- Design reliable, performant, secure, and scalable services for device capabilities, device groups, locations, and ownership transfers.
- Lead modernization of the technology stack while balancing security, maintainability, and cost.
- Shape adoption of AI-assisted development and operational tooling.
- Partner with global platform, product, and partner teams to align technical priorities with product and business goals.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and improve engineering practices across the organization.
- Share responsibility for production support and operate the services the team builds.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of production software engineering experience with a record of Staff-level leadership.
- Fluency in JVM languages such as Java and Kotlin and frameworks such as Spring Boot and Micronaut.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS at scale, using Terraform and Docker.
- Experience making data and messaging architecture decisions involving DynamoDB, relational stores, and event-driven systems built on Kafka or similar technologies.
- Working knowledge of AI development tools and practices.
- Ability to lead design reviews, steer direction across teams, simplify complex problems, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred experience with zero-downtime migrations, large-scale live-system data backfills, observability, failure testing, disciplined release practices, Kubernetes, container orchestration, agentic coding tools, and multi-tenant platforms with permissions, usage limits, and rate limiting.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health benefits, plus an HSA with employer contribution, life and disability insurance, FSAs, and a 401(k) with a 5% employer match.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and generous parental leave including 8 weeks of fully paid parental leave and 8 additional fully paid weeks of childbirth recovery leave.
- Education reimbursement and access to O’Reilly learning resources.
- Parking stipend, onsite EV chargers, weekly catered in-office lunches, and access to an onsite gym.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the Minneapolis office.
Tech Stack
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About SmartThings
SmartThings builds a smart-home platform and mobile app that lets consumers connect and control devices from Samsung and third-party partners, with optional hubs and developer integrations. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, it operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. The company supports major IoT standards (e.g., Matter) and powers automation across phones, TVs, appliances, and other connected devices.