Sr. Software Development Engineer, Ring Neighbors

Amazon • Hawthorne, CA

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About The Position

Ring Neighbors is looking to add a Software Development Engineer to our rapidly growing development team. Ring Neighbors (https://ring.com/neighbors), launched in 2018, is a hyperlocal social networking app providing real-time crime and safety alerts from neighbors and public safety agencies. With Neighbors, you can always know when and where things are happening in your area, and share updates to keep you and your community informed. The Neighbors app is available on iOS (4.8 stars), Android (4.6 stars), recently launched on Web, and is also included as an embedded experience within the Ring app. Neighbors is used by millions of people each month. In addition to our core platform, the team is driving innovation across several exciting initiatives including Search Party Dog, which helps reunite lost pets with their owners through community-powered alerts; the Wildfire project, delivering real-time wildfire detection and safety notifications to affected communities; and Expansion AI, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance and scale the Neighbors experience.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction, design, and development of core services at Ring that make our neighborhoods safer.

This role involves architecting, building, and operating large-scale cloud systems while driving technical excellence across the team. You will own the end-to-end delivery of complex features and systems, mentor junior engineers, and influence the technical roadmap. You will lead design reviews, establish best practices, and make critical trade-off decisions that impact millions of customers. You will work alongside extraordinary talent and collaborate across organizations to deliver innovative products at scale.

The team owns services that have been built primarily in Go, and Python, regularly utilize Lambdas as part of an event driven architecture, and are responsible for delivering a combination of backend services and web tools used by internal customers (Neighbors Administrators, and Neighbors News Team).

The moderation tooling include a machine learning (ML) component ripe for future investment and the team leverages a rich set of AWS services are used in the team’s solutions including: S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Elastic Search, Lambda, Cloud Auth, Redshift, Athena, along with Amazon’s standard Builder Hub Tools. The team consists of a combination of backend, full-stack, and front end developers.

Requirements

• Has deep expertise in software development, system design, and cloud computing with a track record of delivering complex, production-grade systems
• Has extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
• Drives technical decisions and can articulate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Raises the bar on engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, and establishing team-wide standards and best practices
• Mentors and develops other engineers, fostering a culture of technical growth and operational excellence
• Takes ownership of ambiguous problems, breaks them down into actionable plans, and delivers results with minimal direction
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a high quality bar
• Communicates effectively across teams and organizations, building alignment and driving consensus on technical strategy
• Is passionate about delivering customer value and continuously pushes the boundaries of what's possible through emerging tools and technologies
• 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

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

• Shaping the technical direction, design, and development of core services at Ring
• Architecting, building, and operating large-scale cloud systems
• Driving technical excellence across the team
• Owning the end-to-end delivery of complex features and systems
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Influencing the technical roadmap
• Leading design reviews
• Establishing best practices
• Making critical trade-off decisions
• Collaborating across organizations to deliver innovative products at scale

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level