Software Development Engineer II

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 contribute to 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.

This Software Development Engineer role will be responsible to create innovative and unique experiences for our customers with a wide range of Amazon Devices. This hands-on position also requires broad engineering competency in Embedded Software, Linux middleware, C/C++ based device software modules and application development, Strong experience in Multimedia domain (Audio, Video), good knowledge on HAL/HIDL is preferred along with a strong code craftsmanship principles and a good understanding of the scalable software system design. In addition, provide technical consultation across different organization, find innovative ways to solve customer needs and take up interesting technical problems that are unique to devices. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.

Key job responsibilities

Software Development Engineer will be involved in design of various middleware and cloud services by collaborating with the various internal and external stakeholders. Software Development Engineer will be working on both Fire OS and Amazon's Vega OS. Software Development Engineer will closely work with the Product Management team to detail out/disambiguate the requirements. Software 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

- 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl 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

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