The role
From Amazon's own posting.
Ring is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Cloud Connectivity organization in Toronto, where you'll lead the design and delivery of large-scale, customer-facing platforms that power how millions of Ring devices and services work together.
You'll own the end-to-end technical direction for complex systems that process high-throughput real-time data and integrate with a broad ecosystem of connected devices. You'll collaborate across Ring's cloud, firmware, science, and product organizations to solve hard problems in distributed systems, cross-platform application delivery, and real-time data processing at scale.
This role offers the opportunity to shape new product experiences from the ground up, working with a Toronto-based team that values technical ownership, iterative delivery, AI-first development practices, and engineering excellence.
Join us in building the next generation of smart home infrastructure that keeps families safe and connected.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement ultra-high-throughput backend services supporting millions of Ring devices and strict uptime requirements
- Build extensible services and data models that serve as the foundation for Ring's device connectivity and internal service ecosystem
- Drive technical excellence and establish engineering best practices
- Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems using AWS services, ensuring scalability from thousands to millions of concurrent device operations
- Partner with cross-functional teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions that enhance customer experience and security
- Lead operational excellence initiatives including monitoring, alerting, and automated testing to maintain our critical service dependencies
Contribute to technical decision-making that influences Ring's device platform architecture and future product capabilities
About the team
Ring Cloud Connectivity builds the foundational platforms and services that power how Ring devices connect, communicate, coordinate, and deliver experiences to customers. The team partners across Ring's cloud services, firmware, science, and product organizations to deliver customer experiences at scale. We are a Toronto-based team that values technical ownership, iterative delivery, and leveraging AI-first development to maximize engineering impact.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design 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
- Experience with Generative AI-first development practices.
- 2+ years Experience with one or more relevant front-end frameworks such as React, React Native, or cross-platform UI toolkits.
- 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
- Experience with real-time data processing, streaming architectures, or low-latency event-driven systems.
- Experience integrating ML or computer vision model outputs into production applications.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, ON, Toronto - 150,700.00 - 251,700.00 CAD annually