Staff Software Engineer, Components & Device Actions
Hybrid Minneapolis Full-time Senior Engineering Leadership
At a glance
Senior Engineering Leadership role at SmartThings. Minneapolis · full-time · $139,000–$198,000 base.
SalaryStated by SmartThings
$139,000 – $198,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from SmartThingsOur estimate for the market: $159,125–$191,000Median $181,498
The range includes the market median of $181,498 for senior engineering leadership roles in Minneapolis.
Worked out from 14 postings that stated pay, median $181,498. Last updated Nov 5, 2026.
RoleEngineering Leadership
SenioritySenior
LocationMinneapolis
WorkplaceHybrid
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$139,000–$198,000
PostedOct 12, 2026
Role brief
techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Set long-range technical direction for CODA areas covering device and location cloud services
- Drive complex, cross-team work from early design through production release
- Shape reliable, secure service architecture for device features, groups, locations and ownership changes
- Modernize the software stack while weighing security, upkeep and operating cost
- Guide AI-assisted engineering practices, partner across teams, coach engineers and help support production services
What you bring
- A computer science, computer engineering or related bachelor's degree
- At least eight years building production software, with leadership at Staff level
- Strong JVM language and framework skills, plus experience operating distributed microservices and REST APIs on AWS
- Hands-on use of Terraform and Docker, with sound judgment on databases and Kafka-style event systems
- Working knowledge of AI development methods and a record of leading design reviews across teams
Who this fits
This senior, hands-on role suits an engineer ready to set technical direction, lead large initiatives, mentor peers and share responsibility for live services. It requires working from the Minneapolis office three days each week.
From the employer
We’re SmartThings, one of the leading IoT ecosystems in the world, creating the most effortless way for anyone to create a smart home. We're a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung with corporate offices in Minneapolis and the Bay Area.
More than 430 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances. We also offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem (think IKEA, SONOS, Honeywell, and so many more). As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use. Come be a part of the leading edge of IoT innovation!
SmartThings 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%. In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following:
Desired Skills
More than 430 million people worldwide use SmartThings to control and manage their connected life. SmartThings delivers simple, powerful experiences across Samsung’s leading portfolio of phones, TVs, and appliances. We also offer the most versatile smart home experience as an open platform with a rich partner ecosystem (think IKEA, SONOS, Honeywell, and so many more). As a founding member of Matter, we are a leader in the industry to help make smart homes more secure, reliable and seamless to use. Come be a part of the leading edge of IoT innovation!
SmartThings 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%. 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. You'll share responsibility for production support, from planning through deployment.
- 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
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