Software Development Engineer, Device OS
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
The Role
We are looking for a skilled engineer to design and build self-service tools that help software development teams push code to production, at speed. Our tools support multiple workflows, plugin to various services across Amazon and scale as workloads increase. Our team owns feature development, performance, scalability and excellence on all our tools. You will work directly with our customers to make sure that changes and feature requests are balanced with performance and stability.
It is a challenge to work with hundreds of developers who rely on these tools and is also a great opportunity for engineers who are looking to push themselves and prove that they can achieve great things.
Our tools are critical to developer productivity, which means architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant is essential.
You will engage with experienced, cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative environment. You will take part in designing solutions to hard problems across a global platform. You will work closely with multiple DevOps teams to drive the SDLC from concept to launch and ensuring the highest level of for your deliverables.
Key job responsibilities
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
As a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, you will own critical App frameworks components that make it possible to manager applications for Amazon devices. You will create common software components to help Amazon build our smart home devices by working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction including product lines such as Echo and Fire TV. You will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance.
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.
A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where you’ll write code, as well as work on technical designs and architecture. We are building the OS foundations, enabling you to interact with product teams to gather requirements, support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best, and you’ll find opportunities to have a mentor as well as mentor others by sharing knowledge across teams as we build a truly unique UI app development experience.
About the team
The framework components are horizontal OS system services that applications and native service daemons will leverage. Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive UI experiences that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering app frameworks and foundational pieces that are critical to the operating system and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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