Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

Position Summary

Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA) is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances and enterprise solutions. The company pushes beyond the limits of today’s technology to provide groundbreaking connected experiences across its large portfolio of products and services, including mobile devices, home appliances, home entertainment, 5G networks and digital displays. As an eleven-time winner of EPA’s ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for Sustained Excellence, SEA is dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment through its eco-conscious products, practices and operations.

People | Excellence | Change | Integrity | Co-prosperity

Role and Responsibilities

The Senior Staff Software Development Engineer role encompasses the entire eCommerce platform that powers Samsung.com, including both web and mobile platforms. The individual in this position will partner with a team of talented architects, Engineering, Operations, and Product for platform architecture, development processes, and automation to build a highly scalable and fault tolerant e-commerce platform. This role requires close collaboration with Engineering, SRE, and Product teams to understand requirements and provide technical leadership on system design, platform architecture, hands-on POC for new technologies, and adopt industry best-practices.

This highly technical role demands a broad set of skills focused on driving engineering best practices, industry-leading cloud and data architecture, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include designing highly available and scalable distributed systems, deployment technologies, infrastructure as code, robust monitoring and log management, end-to-end security, hands-on expertise with AWS, site availability, and managing data pipelines. This position requires engagement with many new and emerging technologies and applications. If you thrive on solving complex problems and pride yourself on staying up-to-date with technological advancements and industry best practices, this could be a great fit for you.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Design, review, and approve architectural solutions to meet complex functional and technical requirements.
• Develop and enhance distributed systems, reusing existing capabilities to foster a clean and extensible foundation for future programs and projects.
• Advocate for new tools, frameworks, technologies, and standards to guide the engineering and operations teams in system development.
• Develop and enhance data pipelines and Analytics, including spearheading the exploration of adopting modern tools and technologies.
• Possess a deep understanding of software development lifecycle processes and techniques, including development, build, test, and production deployment strategies.
• Develop POCs and production quality code for business requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.
• Elevate existing processes and create a culture that champions operational efficiency, cost optimization, and unprecedented system visibility for operations, SRE, and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve technical issues, drive root cause analysis (RCA), and provide technical leadership.

Background & Competencies Required:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 12 years of professional experience in architecting and shipping SaaS, PaaS, and data platforms.
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience on distributed systems, real-time streaming, low-latency design, and microservices architecture
• In-depth knowledge of modern software architectures, including techniques and concepts such as serverless, messaging bus, microservices, sharding, containerization, and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), as well as other distributed systems concepts.
• Strong hands-on expertise with data platforms, ETL processes, schema management, and analytics.
• Extensive expertise in AWS services and technologies.
• Proficiency in managing Elasticsearch clusters and RDS PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively