External job description
The team is looking for a Sr. Software Manager responsible for leading a team of engineers working on the development and production of products, focusing on safety and security based connected products, including sensors, networking back-up systems, connected accessories for security cameras, doorbells, and outdoor floodlight cameras. This team's work directly impacts millions of Ring customers worldwide.
A successful candidate will have strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, people management skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
You will work closely with our device engineering team globally, as well as cloud and mobile teams. You must be responsive and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. This position can be based in Los Angeles or Boston.


Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Manager, you will develop software in ambiguous or complex spaces. You will drive the development of solutions to improve customer experience. You will be a key contributor to team strategy.
• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop strong technical designs, firmware architectures, to be used in embedded systems.
• Execute against project plans and provide timely delivery of committed results.
• Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Manage department resources, staffing and mentoring.
• Build, enhance, and maintain engineering team.
• Report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management.
• Maintain and enhance software framework.


A day in the life
A day in the life
The successful candidate will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on products used every day by customers around the world. Your work is very hands-on and multi-disciplinary. You will be working closely with vendors, engineers, and product teams. You will write documents, lead reviews and discussions, mentor and develop your team while driving cross-functional collaboration, make critical technical decisions and help build up your team’s capabilities.


About the team
About the team
You will join a team that builds the device software and technology that powers our devices to help our customers protect their homes. Our goal is to deliver the most reliable and performant security devices that makes our customers feel “Always Home”.

- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or equivalent
- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience in computer architecture
- • Strong knowledge in one or more of the following areas: (i) Camera and Computer Vision technologies; (ii) Video and audio streaming; (iii) Low power or battery power systems design; (iv) Embedded system design; (v) System architecture design for consumer devices with connectivity (WiFi, BLE); and (vi) motion sensor technologies.
- • Experience in working with overseas CM/OEM/ODM vendors in product development

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $198,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $342,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.