Hybrid Staff Software Engineer

at Simpson Strong-Tie

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $123,700 - $167,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Entity Framework, Microservices, MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, SQL, Terraform, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Plano, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer developing foundational platform services for building industry solutions at Simpson Strong-Tie. Leading complex technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cross-team platform architecture working in concert with architects, staff, and principal engineers.
• Influence technical direction for authentication/authorization, document management, and shared platform services.
• Build prototypes to validate architectural approaches and prove out complex technical patterns.
• Design service boundaries, integration patterns, and API contracts that scale across the organization.
• Make strategic technology decisions affecting multiple product teams.
• Drive hands-on implementation of complex, broad technical initiatives.
• Lead development of cloud-native microservices with high scalability, availability, and security requirements.
• Work through complex technical code changes that span multiple services and teams.
• Influence engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Mentor and guide senior and lead engineers across platform teams.
• Provide architectural guidance, code reviews, and technical direction.
• Build alignment between teams on interconnected services.
• Influence hiring standards and provide career sponsorship.
• Foster technical excellence through hands-on collaboration and constructive feedback.
• Shape platform technical roadmaps and drive organizational improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on strategic technical direction.
• Identify and address architectural debt impacting multiple teams.
• Research and introduce emerging technologies that advance platform capabilities.
• Align technical investments with business strategy and improve developer productivity at scale.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and stakeholders.
• Communicate technical strategy to diverse audiences.

Requirements

• 10+ years professional software development experience with proven track record architecting and delivering complex, scalable systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience
• Expert-level proficiency in C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, and modern .NET ecosystem
• Deep experience with cloud-native microservices architectures on Azure (AKS, Service Bus, API Management, Azure Functions)
• Extensive hands-on experience with authentication/authorization frameworks: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, JWT tokens, Identity Server, Azure AD/Entra ID
• Proven ability to architect cross-team systems, define service boundaries, integration patterns, and API contracts that scale across organizations
• Strong expertise in RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous messaging patterns (message queues, event streaming, pub/sub)
• Experience with distributed system patterns: service mesh, circuit breakers, retry policies, saga patterns, distributed tracing
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Deep understanding of database design for microservices (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB, MongoDB, Redis)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, E2E), and DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate technical strategy to diverse audiences including executives, product managers, and engineers
• Demonstrated ability to build prototypes, work through complex cross-cutting code changes, and validate architectural patterns through hands-on implementation

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• retirement contributions
• employee stock purchase and bonus plans
• pay for holidays
• vacation
• sick days
• funerals and jury duty
• years of service awards
• employee discounts
• employee referral bonuses
• charitable contribution matching
• education reimbursement