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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Illumina, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,600.0 - $233,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Architectural Patterns, Unit Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Profiling, Databases, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Memory Management, Elasticsearch, Knockout.js, MongoDB, Model View Controller (MVC), NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Scrum Methodology, Memory Leaks, Web Application Security, Service-Oriented Architecture, Subversion, System Programming, Parallel Computation, Git, Event Driven Architecture, AngularJS, Restful APIs, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/staff-software-engineer-509979051

## About the Role

* Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
 * Strong proficiency in one or more low-level programming languages, such as C++ or Rust, with a deep understanding of language internals, performance optimization, and memory management
 * Experience with SaaS multitenant database architectures using RDBMS, and noSQL stores such as Elastic Search, Cassendra, and MongoDb
 * Deep understanding of SOA, web security architecture, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and other architectural patterns
 * Experience with client-side MVC Frameworks (i.e., AngularJS, KnockoutJS) is a plus
 * Proficient with source control management repositories (such as GIT, SVN, etc.) and CM practices
 * Extensive experience writing high quality unit tests against mock objects
 * Good understanding of object oriented analysis and design
 * Demonstrated success in collaborating in a fast-paced team environment and delivering high-quality software products using established agile development methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) against formal schedules

Desired:

 * Possess proven troubleshooting skills. Experience debugging complex issues using low-level debugging and profiling tools (e.g., GDB, LLDB, perf, Valgrind, or equivalent).
 * Be curious, detail oriented, and analytical, with a proven ability to learn quickly
 * Be customer-focused, team-oriented, and motivated, taking ownership of assigned tasks
 * Have proven ability to self-manage, as well as manage interdisciplinary relationships
 * Have proven verbal and written communication skills

## Description

* Collaborate with product owners and other application developers to design, code, and maintain high quality, cloud-based applications against established processes in a scrum team setting
 * Work with software teams to ensure alignment of architecture to user requirements
 * Occasionally provide technical assistance to escalated production issues
 * Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software technologies to platform development efforts
 * Provide technical leadership to an Agile team if required
 * Lead performance optimization efforts, including memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency.