Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Ring Data Streaming Services
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Desirable
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience working in an Agile or Scrum environment
- 1+ years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience
- Knowledge of batch and streaming data architectures like Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Storm, Beam
- Experience building and operating a cloud-based architecture
What the job involves
- The Ring Data Streaming Services team is at the forefront of building next-generation event processing platforms that power mission-critical customer experiences and AI-driven innovations across Ring, Blink, Key, and Sidewalk (RBKS)
- We're looking for a Software Development Engineer to lead the evolution of our structured data streaming platform as we scale to meet the explosive growth in data-driven features and AI capabilities
- We enable RBKS to drive mission-critical operational workflows, business decisions, and system health monitoring through both analytical and operational event processing on structured and unstructured data
- We provide standardized interfaces and access patterns that maintain AWS-grade reliability while shielding teams from complexity—accelerating innovation and promoting data-driven decision making across every aspect of the RBKS business
- As a member of our team, you'll be working at the intersection of massive-scale data engineering and AI innovation:
- AI-Powered Innovation: You'll help build the data infrastructure that powers AI-driven customer-facing features, from intelligent security alerts to predictive device health monitoring. Our platform is the foundation for machine learning models that enhance the Ring neighbour experience
- Engineering Excellence Through AI: Drive the adoption of AI tools and techniques to improve our own engineering velocity, code quality, and operational excellence. We're leveraging generative AI to accelerate development, automate testing, and optimize system performance
- Massive Scale Impact: Process over a petabyte of data daily and 50 million events per second from millions of Ring devices worldwide, powering real-time customer experiences, business analytics, and engineering insights
- Platform Excellence: Build services with AWS-grade reliability that other teams depend on for their most critical workflows. Your work directly enables innovation across the entire RBKS organization
- Technical Leadership: Shape the architecture and technical direction of complex distributed systems while mentoring engineers and influencing best practices across the organization
- You'll design and build highly distributed components of our event streaming platform that serve as the backbone for AI/ML pipelines and real-time operational workflows
- Drive technical direction and architecture decisions for complex software systems processing petabyte-scale data
- Innovate with AI: Identify and implement opportunities to leverage AI for improving platform stability, performance, security, and cost optimization
- Deliver customer value iteratively while working towards longer-term systems goals that enable next-generation AI capabilities
- Make data-driven decisions to inform product prioritization and technical investments
- Provide technical expertise throughout the product lifecycle and own operational excellence of large-scale production services
- Mentor and coach engineers, participating in hiring and building a world-class team
- Our team operates at the forefront of both data engineering and AI adoption, using the latest tools and techniques to build better products faster while enabling AI-powered features that delight customers
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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