Description

At eero, our mission is to serve as the central nervous system of the home. While we began by revolutionizing home WiFi, we aim to create comprehensive solutions that serve both wireless and wired connectivity needs for customers and businesses across the globe. Our cross-functional team, spanning hardware, software, and manufacturing, develops advanced Ethernet switching and gateway products, alongside state of the art security features, to complement our award-winning mesh WiFi systems. As an Amazon company, we combine the best of startup culture with the resources and stability of one of the world's leading technology companies. Our team builds products that customers love - from mesh routers to high-performance wired networking devices - and we're looking for you to join us in shaping the future of the connected home.

We live in a connected world and WiFi has become a critical component to every home. eero is the first product to deliver a whole home WiFi experience using mesh technology to make sure you never have to worry about WiFi ever again. We believe deeply in providing the best connectivity experience possible for our customers.



Key job responsibilities
Hardware Bring-Up & Production Support
- Partner with hardware engineering during board bring-up to debug boot sequences, peripheral initialization, and device configurations
- Support manufacturing and operations teams to ensure production firmware quality and flash/provisioning reliability
- Develop and maintain low level driver ensuring secure, reliable, and stable fleet-wide deployments
Embedded Linux Platform Development
- Design, develop, and maintain system-level services and daemons on eeroOS (embedded Linux) using Golang, Python, and C/C++
- Develop and optimize low-level platform components in C/C++ for eero devices, including system initialization, process management, and hardware abstraction layers
- Maintain and evolve the eeroOS distribution, including kernel configuration, package management, and system image builds

Networking & Connectivity
- Implement and debug networking features spanning L2–L4 (Ethernet, Wi-Fi/802.11, TCP/IP, mDNS, DHCP) within the platform layer
- Collaborate with firmware and radio teams on wireless subsystem integration and performance tuning

Build Infrastructure & Tooling
- Maintain and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, build systems (Yocto/ BitBake or equivalent), and developer tooling to accelerate team velocity and code quality
- Develop automated testing frameworks for device software validation
Data-Driven Quality
- Analyze telemetry and diagnostics data from beta, dogfood, and production fleets to identify regressions, performance issues, and improvement opportunities
- Drive root-cause analysis for field issues using remote debugging, log analysis, and device-level diagnostics
Mentorship & Leadership
- Lead technical design reviews and mentor junior engineers on embedded platform best practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions that impact the full eero device portfolio



A day in the life
- The Connectivity team at eero is looking for an experienced engineer to join the Platform Software Development team. The Platform team is responsible for the operating system which powers all eero devices, software build infrastructure which is used by teams developing features on the eero devices, Smart Home Hub, Automation and Tooling.

- A SDE on the platform team develops applications and features in Golang and Python on eero's operating system which spans across all eero hardware and is also responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the eeroOS operating system and build infrastructure.


About the team
The Platform Software Development team owns eeroOS — the embedded Linux-based operating system powering all eero devices — along with the software build infrastructure, Smart Home Hub integration, and automation/tooling used by feature teams across the organization. We operate at the intersection of embedded systems and modern software engineering, building reliable, performant services that run on resource-constrained networking hardware deployed to millions of homes.

The team also serves as a core group responsible for triaging and resolving customer issues across production, beta, and dogfood deployments, working cross-functionally with Cloud, Data, and Mobile app teams.



Interested in exploring career opportunities with eero? Visit our careers page to view all open positions:
- https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/teams/devices-services/hardware-eero?country%5B%5D=US&keyword%5B%5D=eero