Principal Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Ring Device Software
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree
- Embedded development experience across all layers of an embedded product and strong C++ and system / software architecture skills
Desirable
- Proven experience in working on power and thermally constrained devices across all layers of embedded software
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to tackle some of our most complex technical challenges in smart home technology
- You'll architect sophisticated software solutions that enable 4K video processing and advanced AI features on resource-constrained devices, while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in power efficiency
- This role offers the opportunity to innovate in memory bandwidth optimization, CPU utilization, and power state management, creating scalable frameworks that enhance performance across our entire product line
- Your expertise will be crucial in developing automated systems that validate and optimize our devices' performance, ensuring millions of customers receive the best possible experience from our smart home products
- Design and implement software architectures that optimize system-wide performance
- Develop intelligent power management solutions through software innovation
- Create frameworks for efficient execution of AI models on edge devices
- Build and maintain SDK-level optimizations for processor and memory utilization
- Lead implementation of power states and thermal management software
- Develop technical roadmaps for software performance improvements
- Collaborate with silicon vendors on software integration and optimization
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.
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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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