Job summary
You will join the team that supports and develops the technology for our popular streaming features such as Live View, to connect customers to their Ring video doorbells and security cameras. Our goal is to ensure a fast and reliable streaming and playback experience, alongside building solutions and supporting new products that help Ring on their mission to make neighbourhoods safer.

As a System Development Engineer, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive, design, and bring to market innovative consumer electronics products.

Key job responsibilities
· Continuously collaborating with teams, identifying opportunities to automate away manual processes.
· Design, develop, and deploy release testing and deployment pipelines, enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) following DevOps principles.
· Research and instruct others on emerging technologies and AWS products.
· Work closely with an internal interdisciplinary team and outside partners to drive key aspects of product definition, execution, and test, as well as this you’ll be involved in planning and maintaining database structures.
· Participate in major engineering projects end-to-end with globally dispersed cross-functional stakeholders.

A day in the life
The team works with a high load system and challenge themselves to continually improve the scalability of the system and services. Ring customers see the results of our work every day. We concentrate on providing a fully customer-obsessed product and service, working on developing systems and services of the highest standard, working alongside a number of Ring teams.

The ideal candidate:
· Has in-depth expertise working with distributed systems and understands how they are deployed.
· Enjoys working side by side with partners, colleagues and teams on tough problems
· Is highly effective and thrives in a dynamic environment with multiple, changing priorities
· Knows what is important when shipping products to customers and has been through the process from start to finish
· Is comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership and never shies away from a challenge

About the team
Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighbourhoods safer. From the video doorbell to the DIY Ring Alarm system, Ring’s smart home security product line offers users affordable whole-home and neighbourhood security. At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighbourhood security accessible and effective for everyone – while working hard to bring communities together. Ring is an Amazon company. For more information, visit www.ring.com. With Ring, you’re always home.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field
· Experience in REST architecture for web services
· Experience of Systems Engineering/Administration with large distributed systems or applications.
· Experiencing automating frequent operating system and service tasks using command languages such as bash
· Experience developing automation for deploying and managing services and their underlying infrastructure via contemporary programming/scripting languages, configuration management tools, and APIs.
· Experience with system and application monitoring, software distribution, patching and maintenance
· Coding skills in, at least, one object oriented programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Advanced degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
· Experience developing web-applications on contemporary technology stacks.
· Experience managing and developing services on Amazon Web Services using EKS, EC2, S3, SQS, Lambda, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, ECS, API Gateway, etc. or comparable products from another cloud platform.
· Active AWS certifications (AWS Associate Solutions Architect, AWS Associate Developer, AWS Associate Systems Operations).
· Experience with imperative and/or declarative configuration management and deployment tools (Cloudformation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc.).
· Experience with AWS CI/CD products such as CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeCommit or comparable solutions such as Jenkins, Github, Tekton, etc.
· Experience with mission critical systems.
· Ability to track the health of our services, identify and fix problems on complex systems with massive scale.


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All offers are conditional on references, verification of the right to work in the UK, and successful background screening check. This will include previous employment verification, qualification verification (if relevant) and a relevant criminal check.