Software Development Engineer, Amazon Device OS

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Device OS

As a Software Development Engineer in the Amazon Device OS organization, you will own the definition and implementation of a software development environment that enables building applications for millions of devices, such as Fire TV, Echo and more.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of native app development, debugging tools, and UI tooling. If you have a passion for on-device software, and making it easy for app developers to create interactive visual experiences, this is an ideal position for you. As a developer developing tools for other developers, you will be challenged to create rich customer applications, while also optimizing for performance and ease of use by customers.

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.

Key job responsibilities

1. Design and implement reliable, high-performance SDKs for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar.
2. Experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience and solve business needs.
3. Work with internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs.
4. Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how.
5. Mentor junior team members in career growth.

A day in the life

Our engineers create exceptional development tools that our customers love. You’ll design and deliver end-to-end customer journeys from scratch, working backward from the customer to craft intuitive, delightful, and impactful experiences.

About the team

We're building a pre-GA product, still confidential, hitting the market later next year. Our success stems from providing exceptional user experience. We're looking for software developers with strong background in native development, development for devices, developer tools and UI development.

If you want to impact how developers build thousands of applications deployed in millions of devices worldwide, join us!

Minimum Requirements

1. Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
3. Experience of full software development life cycle, including code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
4. Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, Rust, Java or TypeScript.
5. Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis).
6. Experience (non-internship) in professional software development.
7. Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
8. Working experience and knowledge on debugging tools such as GDB, LLDB, ADB, Symbol Servers, Elfutils.
9. Embedded firmware development experience.
10. Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, write technical designs, and discuss product strategy.

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