Senior Staff Software Engineer: Cloud, C++/Rust, Remote

Socket.dev; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable cash programs

Equity

Health/dental/vision benefits

Paid time off

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Illumina is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our remote-friendly team in the United States. You will design and maintain cloud-based applications, align architecture with user needs, and lead optimization efforts across memory, parallelism, and algorithms.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of experience with C++ or Rust, plus strong knowledge of SOA, REST APIs, and event-driven patterns. Familiarity with AngularJS or KnockoutJS is a plus, and Agile practices are required.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Deep understanding of SOA, web security architecture, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and other architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

C++

Rust

SOA

REST APIs

Event-driven architecture

AngularJS

KnockoutJS

GIT

SVN

Unit testing

OOAD

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

ElasticSearch

Cassandra

MongoDB

RDBMS

GIT

CI/CD

Job description

Illumina is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our remote-friendly team in the United States. You will design and maintain cloud-based applications, align architecture with user needs, and lead optimization efforts across memory, parallelism, and algorithms.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of experience with C++ or Rust, plus strong knowledge of SOA, REST APIs, and event-driven patterns. Familiarity with AngularJS or KnockoutJS is a plus, and Agile practices are required.