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Staff Software Engineer, Rust
Job Location:
Job Location:
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 139000 - 198000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
24 October 2026 (20 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
21 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
- Local device execution: Building and maintaining the runtime that lets hubs run device integrations directly on the hub.
- Hub and cloud data flow: Ensuring device state events and commands move reliably between hubs and the cloud that cloud and hub data records stay synchronized and that hubs recover gracefully after losing connectivity.
- Core hub software architecture: Reshaping the hubs core services so theyre easier to maintain faster and ready for new hardware..
- Configuration and system management: Designing how hubs receive validate and safely roll back configuration and keeping core system behavior such as timekeeping consistent and resilient.
- Release quality and observability: Monitoring software releases across the hub population and building the metrics and tooling that surface problems early.
About The Role
Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be a technical owner and leader for the Hub Applications team. This is a deeply hands-on role for someone with expert-level Rust skills. Youll write review and set the standard for the Rust code that runs on millions of SmartThings hubs where performance memory use and reliability on resource-constrained devices matter. Comfort with Rusts ownership model concurrency and error handling is essential as is experience working across the boundary between Rust and existing C code.
Youll help drive long-term technical strategy for our core areas including evolving the hubs foundational software toward a more modular maintainable design. Operating with autonomy youll bring clarity to complex cross-functional challenges and act as a go-to expert and point of contact for major initiatives. Close partnership with firmware security cloud and product teams will shape how SmartThings hubs evolve. Mentoring engineers across the team including senior engineers and guiding how the team adopts AI-assisted development and operational practices are also part of the role.
This role is hybrid 3 days/week in our Minneapolis Office (on iconic St Anthony Main across from Downtown with paid attached parking!).
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 Ownership: Own the long-term technical direction for one or more Hub Applications domains.
- Lead Complex Initiatives: Lead large cross-team projects as the technical owner from design through rollout.
- Architect for Reliability & Scale: Guide architecture and design decisions for systems such as local device execution hub-to-cloud data synchronization and hub configuration and software asset management with stability resilience to unreliable connectivity and operational excellence as first-class concerns.
- Rust Technical Leadership: Serve as a deep Rust expert for the team. Set the standard for how we write review and test Rust that runs on resource-constrained devices with performance memory efficiency and safe concurrency as everyday concerns. Guide the evolution of existing code including where Rust meets legacy C.
- AI Practices & Vision Collaboration: Help define how the team uses AI-assisted development and operational tooling evaluating where AI can meaningfully improve velocity and quality and set a forward-looking vision for responsible AI adoption in the organization.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with firmware security cloud infrastructure and product management to keep technical direction aligned with product requirements and business needs.
- Mentor & Elevate the Team: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers at every level including senior engineers and help build engineering practices that raise the bar across the org.
- Operational Excellence & On-Call: Participate in observability incident response and on-call rotations supporting the production firmware delivery and hub connectivity.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field
- 8 years of production software engineering experience with a demonstrated track record operating at a Staff-level technical leadership capacity
- Expert-level proficiency in Rust with deep knowledge of ownership and lifetimes async and multithreaded concurrency error handling and writing performant memory-efficient code for resource-constrained devices
- Strong systems programming experience on embedded Linux or similar constrained environments including debugging crashes memory issues and performance problems in production
- Experience designing for unreliable networks: offline operation state reconciliation retry and backoff behavior and graceful recovery
- Strong knowledge of AI development tools and practices
- Proven ability to lead architecture and design reviews set technical direction across teams and bring about simple solutions to complex problems
- Strong track record of cross-functional collaboration with firmware cloud and product teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience translating technical strategy for both technical and non-technical audiences
Desired Skills
- Experience interoperating Rust with C or C codebases including incremental migration of legacy code
- Experience with IoT connectivity protocols and standards (Matter Zigbee Thread MQTT)
- Experience with embedded scripting runtimes or sandboxed code execution (e.g. Lua WebAssembly)
- Experience with IoT fleet management: staged rollouts feature flags monitoring and lifecycle management at scale
- Experience with observability tooling and release monitoring for large deployed device populations
- Experience with CI/CD and automated validation for embedded software
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!
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