Staff Software Engineer, Components & Device Actions
Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 139000 - 198000
Posted:
14 October 2026 (12 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
11 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The pay range for this role is $139000 to $198000 with an annual bonus target of 20%.
Key Responsibilities
In this role your primary responsibilities will include the following:
- Technical Strategy: Chart the long-term direction for one or more CODA domains so our device and location services keep pace with platform growth.
- Complex Initiatives: Own large ambiguous multi-team efforts from first sketch to well-run production launch.
- Architecture for Reliability & Scale: Steer design for the services behind device capabilities device groups locations and ownership transfer including event-driven state processing and the demands of enterprise customers. Reliability performance and security shape the design from day one.
- Platform Modernization: Lead the evolution of our stack while balancing security maintainability and cost.
- AI Practices & Vision: Shape how the team adopts AI-assisted development and operational tooling deciding where it genuinely improves speed and quality.
- Partnership Across Teams: Work alongside global platform product and partner teams that build on CODA keeping priorities aligned with product needs and business goals.
- Mentorship & Team Growth: Coach engineers at every level and build habits that lift the bar across the organization.
- Service Ownership: SmartThings teams run what they build. Youll share responsibility for production support from planning through deployment.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field
- 8 years of production software engineering with a record of Staff-level leadership
- Fluency in JVM languages (Java Kotlin etc.) and frameworks (Spring Boot Micronaut etc).
- A hands-on record designing and operating distributed microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS at scale with Terraform and Docker in your toolkit
- Sound judgment across data and messaging layers: DynamoDB versus relational stores and event-driven systems built on Kafka or similar
- Working knowledge of AI development tools and practices
- Proven ability to lead design reviews steer direction across teams and turn complex problems into simple solutions with clear written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
Desired Skills
- Zero-downtime migrations and large-scale data backfills on live systems
- Observability failure testing and disciplined release practices
- Kubernetes and container orchestration in production
- Agentic coding tools and a habit of sharing what works
- Multi-tenant platforms with permissions usage limits and rate limiting
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.
- Our commitment to diversity equity inclusion and belonging is embedded into our culture and our work and everyone has frequent opportunities to join forums and groups and participate in ongoing projects.
- We offer a parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost. EV chargers are also onsite.
- In-office catered lunches once a week.
- 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
About Company
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