Engineering Manager, Hub Cloud Services - SmartThings

Description

We’re Smart Things, 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 Smart Things to control and manage their connected life. Smart Things 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!

The Hub Cloud Services (HCS) team operates at a massive scale, processing billions of events and millions of smart home users’ commands each day. We design and maintain ultra-fast event and command pipelines so that cloud automation feels seamless and immediate. Additionally, our team manages the core APIs and tools that help power Smart Things hubs, which serve as the backbone of millions of smart homes around the world.

Our infrastructure serves as a vital foundation for many teams throughout Smart Things.

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:

• Lead the engineering team in developing key features for high-volume, mission-critical services
• Uphold architectural standards and encourage elegant system designs that focus on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and performance
• Keep up with and drive adoption of emerging technology through experimentation and hands-on learning
• Manage and mentor engineers, conduct regular check-ins, assess performance and deliver actionable, constructive feedback to support career growth
• Cultivate an engineering culture centered on strong ownership, cross-functional partnership, and reliable, high-quality delivery
• Set an example by regularly tracking fleet metrics and operational performance to maintain high standards of quality and efficiency
• Direct initiatives across various organizations and international teams
• Partner with technical leads and other engineering managers to define and refine the overarching vision across Hub and Cloud organizations
• Drive strategic direction and roadmap planning for the team that aligns with overall company goals

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building web services and cloud systems at scale