Staff Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 139000 - 198000
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Key Responsibilities
This position is a hybrid role based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis MN.
In this role your primary responsibilities will include the following:
In this role your primary responsibilities will include the following:
- Architect the Future: Lead the design and long-term evolution of the C2C platform. Youll ensure the SmartThings Schema remains flexible enough for tomorrows devices while maintaining the rock-solid stability required for todays users.
- AWS Championship: Act as the subject matter expert for our AWS infrastructure. You will leverage deep hands-on experience to build systems that arent just in the cloud but are truly cloud-native prioritizing elastic scalability and zero-trust security.
- Technical Stewardship & Governance: Provide leadership through design reviews and mentorship. You will set the standard for AI-assisted engineering best practices ensuring that AI-generated code meets our rigorous security privacy and performance benchmarks.
- Force Multiply through AI Efficiency: Take ownership of the developer experience by integrating agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Cursor GitHub Copilot Agents) into the teams daily workflow. Your goal is to move the team from manual coding to architectural orchestration significantly improving speed of delivery.
- Operational Excellence: Take end-to-end ownership of the technical stack. You will identify bottlenecks in our delivery pipeline and implement strategies to improve developer productivity CI/CD speed and overall engineering effectiveness. Use AI to automate the boring parts of the jobfrom generating unit tests and documentation to triaging complex incident logs across our C2C distributed systems.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
Inclusive Hiring Practices
Dont meet all desired requirements Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At SmartThings we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly in the job description we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 10 years of software engineering experience with a significant portion dedicated to distributed systems and high-traffic cloud environments.
- Mastery of AWS: Deep proficiency in services like Lambda Kinesis DynamoDB and API Gateway. You should be intimately familiar with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- Schema & API Design Expert: You understand the nuances of building public-facing schemas and APIs that are intuitive for third-party developers yet robust enough for enterprise partners.
- The Staff Mindset: You have a proven track record of leading cross-team initiatives. You know how to influence without authority and can translate complex technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders. You also provide regular mentorship to grow the technical expertise of engineers on and off your immediate team.
- Security-First Approach: You dont treat security as a checkbox at the end of a sprint; its baked into your initial designs.
Desired Skills
- Direct experience with IoT protocols (Matter Zigbee Z-Wave) or ecosystem integrations (Google Home Alexa Apple HomeKit).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes including deploying and operating highly available scalable containerized applications in a production environment and deep knowledge of managing cluster resources scaling strategies and leveraging cloud-native tooling for operational excellence.
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or industry standards.
- A passion for automating everythingfrom infrastructure (Terraform/CDK) to testing.
SmartThings Benefits
Why Youll Love Working at SmartThings
- We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits including medical dental vision and mental health; an HSA with employer contribution; life & disability insurance; FSAs for health and dependent care expenses; a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match and more.
- All of our employees enjoy unlimited PTO 12 paid holidays and a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave).
- Eligible employees benefit from our education reimbursement program and all employees enjoy access to learning resources through OReilly.
- We offer a parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost. EV chargers are also onsite.
- In-office catered lunches on Thursdays.
- Access to the onsite gym.
Base compensation range for this position is $139000 to $198000. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience skills technical expertise and market addition this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.
At SmartThings we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!
At SmartThings we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all. If you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process or to perform the requirements of the job we will work with you to meet your needs in compliance with applicable laws. Please reach out to and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will connect with you further!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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