Lead Member of Technical Staff
San Ramon, California
Job Description:
This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.
At AT&T, we empower leaders to drive change in a fast-evolving, connected world. Your technical expertise and strategic vision will help transform our smart home ecosystem and device intelligence platform into secure, scalable, and monetizable API products.
AT&T is seeking a Lead Member of Technical Staff to advance our Smart Home API and Device Insight APIs. In this critical role, you will architect, build, and scale secure, consumption-based APIs that deliver curated, anonymized, and aggregated device telemetry and performance metrics to internal product and marketing teams, as well as external OEMs and third-party partners. Your work will move us beyond basic reporting to real-time, granular insights into device performance and customer behavior—empowering partners to refine device design, enhance end-user experiences, and unlock new revenue opportunities, all while upholding strict privacy and data security standards.
What you’ll do:
- Architect, develop, and operate Smart Home and Device Insight APIs with high availability, low latency, and versioned lifecycle management.
- Deliver curated, anonymized, and aggregated telemetry and performance metrics via secure, consumption-based APIs for internal and external consumers.
- Build real-time and batch data pipelines for device telemetry ingestion and processing (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis, Spark/Flink), enabling near real-time insights and dashboards.
- Implement privacy-by-design controls, anonymization/aggregation thresholds, encryption, consent/governance enforcement, and secure key management.
- Integrate API management, rate limiting, quotas, metering, and usage-based billing, enabling reliable partner consumption and monetization.
- Collaborate with product, marketing, security, legal/privacy, and OEM partners to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver partner-ready capabilities.
- Create SDKs, reference implementations, and developer documentation to streamline onboarding for internal teams and external partners.
- Establish SLOs/SLAs, monitoring, and observability (logs, metrics, tracing) with automated alerting and robust runbooks.
- Conduct performance/load testing, capacity planning, and cost optimization for large-scale device populations.
- Drive delivery end-to-end: roadmap, backlog, and release management in an agile environment.
What you’ll need:
- Experience designing, building, and operating partner-facing APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC) at scale, including API gateways and developer portals.
- Strong software engineering skills in Java, Go, or Python; microservices; containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes); CI/CD.
- Data engineering proficiency with streaming and batch processing, schema evolution (Avro/Protobuf), and time-series/analytics stores.
- Security expertise: OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, secrets management, tokenization, data anonymization/aggregation, and encryption in transit/at rest.
- Solid understanding of networking and device telemetry; familiarity with home gateway/CPE environments and IoT protocols (e.g., TR-069/TR-369 USP, MQTT) is a plus.
- Experience implementing usage metering, quotas, and consumption-based billing models.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to execute in a fast-paced environment.
What you’ll bring:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform/API development, or data engineering (8+ preferred for lead-level impact).
- Proven track record delivering high-scale APIs and data products that meet strict privacy and security requirements.
- Hands-on experience with real-time analytics and observability (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Demonstrated success enabling partner/OEM integrations and launching developer-facing capabilities.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- A product mindset and a passion for building secure, reliable, and monetizable platforms.
Our Lead Member of Technical Staff, earns between $171,600.00 - $275,900.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.
Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
- AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.
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Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
USA:WA:Bothell / 20309 North Creek Pkwy - Adm (bothell 7):20309 N Creek Pkwy @ Bldg LSalary Range:
$171,600.00 - $275,900.00It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Job ID R-87956-2 Date posted 10/28/2025
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