Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Smart Home Devices

Amazon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 193,300 - 261,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s Ring team is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Development Engineer to build firmware for Ring smart home devices.

You will work across the full embedded stack, from drivers and BSP bring-up to application services, debugging hardware-software interactions in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment. You will design, develop, and maintain software for RTOS and Linux platforms, own end-to-end debugging, drive architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with

Qualifications

• 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.
• 7+ 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

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for Ring devices running on RTOS and Linux-based platforms
• Own end-to-end debugging and root-cause analysis of system-level issues impacting device performance, power consumption, and customer experience
• Drive technical decisions on embedded software architecture, balancing performance, memory footprint, and maintainability
• Lead design and code reviews, championing engineering best practices and raising the quality bar across the team
• Mentor junior engineers through hands-on technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with hardware, cloud, mobile, and product teams to define requirements and deliver cohesive, integrated solutions
• Proactively identify and address systemic issues that affect device reliability and user satisfaction
• Implement diagnostic tooling, metrics, and monitoring to improve system observability and accelerate issue resolution

Skills

Software development

Software architecture

Mentorship

Embedded systems

RTOS/Linux

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon’s Ring team is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Development Engineer to build firmware for Ring smart home devices.

You will work across the full embedded stack, from drivers and BSP bring-up to application services, debugging hardware-software interactions in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment. You will design, develop, and maintain software for RTOS and Linux platforms, own end-to-end debugging, drive architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with