# Staff Software Engineer

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.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 leadershi

- **Id**: 940061
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/illumina-staff-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T16:57:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T05:18:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5815
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Genomics & Genetic Testing, Laboratory Equipment

## Company

- **Id**: 4262
- **Name**: Illumina
- **Domain**: illumina.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/illumina>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.571
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155600
- **Max**: 233400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 233400

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **Kanban** — Optional: yes
- **Valgrind** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T16:57:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 82 · green card filings: 41; Filings 12m: 82; Filings prev 12m: 103; Green card filings 12m: 41

## Liveness

- **Score**: 21
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.48
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 233400
- **Is top pay**: no

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