Senior Software Engineer, RelEng/DevOps

Department: Cloud Platform Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Reporting To: Scott Miller

Description

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 350 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!

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who enjoys contributing solutions in the Release Engineering/DevOps space. Our team is responsible for designing and maintaining the compute resources within the SmartThings Cloud Platform and providing the tooling to deploy software to those resources.

Key Responsibilities

This position is a hybrid role, based onsite 3 days a week at our office in Minneapolis, MN. 

In this role, your primary responsibilities will include the following: 

• Support a large organization in deploying software at scale.
• Architect, design, implement and build tooling and guide capability and process improvements that support the reliability, latency, availability, and scalability of SmartThings internal tooling/ systems/services.
• Create automation to reduce developer overhead so they can spend less time getting a service deployed and more time making the service great.
• Active engagement throughout the software development lifecycle: do this by documenting designs, seeking feedback, iterating on the design
• Participate in cross-functional design discussions and code reviews.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Inclusive Hiring Practices

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At SmartThings, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

What You Bring On Day One (Required Qualifications) 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering or similar discipline
• 5+ years in a software development role
• Experience with Java or Kotlin
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Understanding of CI/CD Implementation
• Understanding of Microservice Architecture
• Customer-focused and interested in enabling SmartThings cloud platform.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment

Desired Skills

• 2+ years of experience in a Release Engineering / DevOps role
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with infrastructure automation (eg. using Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Experience with Spring Boot or equivalent Java Framework
• Experience with Spinnaker for Continuous Delivery
• Experience with Node.js
• Experience with Backstage or other developer portal software

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