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, Lab126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126 providing the core OS, platform, features and components.
In the Device OS group, we are inventing the future for consumer electronics and are looking for a software development engineer to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. The team develops scalable cloud solutions that enable our partners to quickly build and launch devices quickly and in a cost-effective way. If you love to be hands on designing and implementing quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world class, highly accomplished team, we would love to talk with you.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will lead the technical aspects of core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design implement and bring to market innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.
Good to have skills are: Native AWS skills, System programming, general distributed computing experience.
This Software Development Engineer role will be responsible to create innovative Embedded solutions enabling new/unique experiences for our customers with a wide range of Amazon Devices.

Key job responsibilities
Software Development Engineer will deeply be involved in design of various middleware and cloud services by collaborating with the various internal and external stakeholders. Software Development Engineer will closely work with the Product Management team to detail out/disambiguate the requirements. System Development Engineer will own the quality of his/her own work (code/design) and also help junior members in the team to meet or exceed the quality bar.

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