Staff Software Engineer Architecture, CCoE (Minneapolis, MN) Cloud Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Shape the CCOE strategic roadmap by leveraging data and partnering with key stakeholders to define priorities, identify barriers, and influence engineering practices
• Define and create organizational mechanisms to support higher level engineering goals
• Identify and develop a method of collecting and reporting data that enables engineering and senior leadership to make impactful business decisions
• Serve as a conduit between CCOE efforts and Global Samsung stakeholders

• Establish engineering and architectural practices to optimize for security, stability, and quality
• Build out libraries for core technologies that codify best practices and increase velocity
• Consolidate data across tools and vendors to simplify workflows and build reporting to inform key focus areas
• Streamline developer workflows by improving the tool chains that are used to build, deploy, and operate software
• Support adoption of new tooling through education, triaging complex technical problems, mentoring, and pairing 
• Collaborate with teams to pilot new ideas and evaluate them for wider adoption

• Cloud Engineering: Extensive experience with AWS (including security best practices and cost optimization), deep understanding of cloud architecture, and proven ability to optimize performance in cloud environments.
• DevOps & Automation: Mastery of DevOps principles and practices. Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management tools.
• Release Management & Deployment: Experience with sophisticated deployment strategies including blue/green deployments, canary analysis, and feature flags. Familiarity with tools like Spinnaker is highly desirable.
• Programming Languages & Build Systems: Strong proficiency in Java and Kotlin, including experience with the Gradle build system.  A desire to continuously learn new technology and languages given the wide range of languages and technology used internally.

• CCoE Development: Demonstrated experience in establishing engineering practices.  This would include defining standards, best practices, governance frameworks, and driving technology adoption across the organization.
• Collaboration & Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including engineers, security teams, and senior leaders.
• Mentorship & Training: Passion for knowledge sharing and mentoring. Ability to guide and up-skill other engineers in cloud technologies and best practices.
• Ownership: Demonstrated high ownership of projects and tasks with little direction from leadership. 

SmartThings Benefits

Why You’ll 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 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.