Staff Developer, Software Development - Irvine, United States
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This Staff Full-Stack Web Engineer role provides technical leadership in designing, building, enhancing, and supporting web applications and services.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture, design, development, deployment, and support of scalable web applications, APIs, and supporting services.
- Drive complex initiatives across the full software development lifecycle.
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable, maintainable, and scalable technical solutions.
- Establish technical direction for frontend and backend application development, including framework selection and system design patterns.
- Design and optimize relational data models, database schemas, queries, and integrations.
- Review code, mentor engineers, and raise the overall quality bar through best practices.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience in C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
- 8+ years of experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Strong experience building modern web frontends using frameworks or libraries such as Vue.js, React, Angular, or Bootstrap.
- Strong experience with server-side web development using C# / ASP.NET or comparable backend frameworks.
- Strong experience working with relational databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical projects from requirements through production release and ongoing support.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, with significant depth in C# and ASP.NET.
- Deep SQL development and performance tuning experience across Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
- Experience modernizing legacy web applications and improving maintainability, performance, scalability, and user experience.
- Familiarity with Agile software development practices.
- Experience mentoring engineers and serving as a technical lead across multiple concurrent efforts.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.
Skills: web applications, APIs, C#, ASP.NET, relational databases, frontend frameworks
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
912
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Western Digital | All employers we track in this specialty (912 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 912 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 42 | 6047 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 6 d | 51 d (−45 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: web applications, APIs, C#, ASP.NET, relational databases, frontend frameworks
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 250 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 28 d
- Cerebras · 40 open roles · median 74 d
- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 33 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 912 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.