Staff Software Engineer, Components & Device ActionsDepartment: Core Cloud
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Minneapolis, MN
DescriptionSmartThings is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Components and Device Actions (CODA) team. CODA owns the core device and location cloud services that the rest of the SmartThings platform builds on: how devices are described, organized, and managed, and how homes and their contents are represented and handed between owners. You'll join a tight-knit team of experienced engineers running mission-critical services at scale, with a roadmap that spans new platform capabilities, modernization of our stack, and growing demand from enterprise customers. It's a role with real influence over where these services go next.
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
$139,000 to $198,000, with an annual bonus target of 20%.
Key ResponsibilitiesIn 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. You'll share responsibility for production support, from planning through deployment.
Skills, Knowledge & ExpertiseWhat You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications) - Bachelor's 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- 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 O'Reilly.
- 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 $139,000 to $198,000. Actual base within this range will depend on many factors including experience, skills, technical expertise and market alignment. In addition, this role is eligible for a 20% annual target bonus based heavily on individual performance.
