Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AI & Video Monitoring, AI & Video Monitoring

Amazon • Austin, TX

2d • $168,100 - $227,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Ring VSG team is looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) who will serve as the architectural backbone across our two sub-teams (ATX and NEXT), defining system designs, establishing technical patterns, and providing hands-on guidance that keeps both teams aligned and moving fast. The ideal candidate is curious, creative, goal-oriented, and excited to support team members with a strong sense of customer obsession. They take ownership of their work and are passionate about software quality, consistency, maintainability, performance, and security. This role involves defining and owning the overarching technical architecture, leading cross-team technical designs, providing architectural guidance, designing and implementing mission-critical services, owning long-term technical direction, mentoring SDEs, collaborating with Product Management and GTM stakeholders, maintaining production services, driving strategic initiatives, and contributing to continuous improvement of development practices.

Requirements

• 7+ 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

Nice To Haves

• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overarching technical architecture spanning both ATX and NEXT sub-teams, ensuring consistent design patterns, shared service contracts, and coherent platform evolution
• Lead cross-team technical designs and architecture decisions for the Video Monitoring platform, producing design documents, API specifications, and system diagrams that guide implementation across both teams
• Provide day-to-day architectural guidance and design reviews to engineers on both sub-teams, unblocking technical decisions and ensuring solutions meet scalability, reliability, and security requirements
• Design, implement, and maintain mission-critical services powering Video Monitoring's event processing and agent investigation workflows with sub-two-second response times
• Own long-term technical direction for VM platform evolution from human-centered monitoring to AI-agent based automated detection while maintaining human oversight
• Mentor SDEs and serve as technical lead, raising organizational awareness and team productivity through GenAI technologies
• Collaborate with Product Management, GTM stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous customer requirements into concrete technical solutions and architectural blueprints
• Maintain eight production services ensuring audit trail compliance, distributed service communication, and EventStream business intelligence integration
• Drive strategic initiatives and set project timelines for critical VM capabilities, unblocking teams and external partners
• Identify and address systemic technical issues limiting scalability and time-to-market through GenAI adoption and evangelization
• Contribute to continuous improvement of development practices across VM and Ring Core service teams

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree