Software Development Engineer, Ring

Ring is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our growing Cloud Development Team. Ring has a mission to make neighborhoods safer. With affordable solutions that work on any home, Ring is committed to offering smart security that's accessible to everyone. Ring is part of the Amazon Devices family, and we are seeking Software Development Engineers who will help us create the next generation of home security. What will you help us create?

As a Software Development Engineer at Ring, you will be responsible for business critical large-scale cloud services that will be used by millions of Ring customers. This position gives you the opportunity to work with world class engineers and to build cloud systems to support millions of devices. The role will entail development of new cloud services for innovative new capabilities on Ring security devices and continuing development of the Ring infrastructure within the larger Amazon ecosystem. You will work with streaming video, event handling, large scale deployments and high-performance computing, as well as solve distributed systems problems. This position involves design, architecture, development and operations of large-scale cloud systems.

We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer with a strong technical background, customer obsession, and extensive experience building distributed systems. Strong judgment and communication skills, long-term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for success.

About Ring

Rings mission is to make neighborhoods safer by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of home security products and services. The Ring product line, along with the Ring Neighbors app, enable Ring to offer affordable, complete, proactive home and neighborhood security in a way no other company has before. In fact, two Newark, NJ neighborhoods saw an over 50 percent decrease in home break-ins after Ring Video Doorbells and Spotlight Cams were installed on 11% of homes in the communities from April-July 2018 when compared to the same time period in 2017. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you're always home.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Design and document distributed systems and microservices.
• Implement robust and maintainable code with clear and maintained documentation.
• Deliver customer value in iterative fashion while working towards longer term systems to solve roadmap goals with increasing efficiency.
• Communicate status and changes to the work they are responsible and accountable for, keep all stakeholders informed of changes and updates to original plan.
• Implement test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing.
• Working with internal and external teams to bring Ring technology to market
• Maintenance and enhancement of software frameworks for development

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years working on production systems.
• 3+ years working with OO design/development principles.
• 3+ years working with RESTful architecture for web services.
• 3+ years in a variety of modern programming languages (Go, Java, Scala, Python, Ruby) and open-source technologies (Linux, Kafka, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience working with AWS services (CloudFormation, DynamoDB, CloudWatch).
• Experience working with cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing and operation.
• Excellence in technical communication with peers and remote teams, both technical and non-technical
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team