Software Development Engineer II Device Privacy And Data Handling

The Device Privacy and Data Handling team is responsible for building solutions to help ensure we retain the trust of customers who own Amazon devices. Our services help teams at Amazon comply with privacy policies to protect our customers data. We build services from the ground up to delight our customers and raise the bar on privacy within the Amazon Devices organization. Our team builds backend services and components on our devices that combine to deliver our products and services to our customers. Our teams services run on all types of Amazon devices from Kindle EReaders to Alexaenabled devices Fire TVs Fire Tablets and more.

We are looking for an experienced passionate and technically strong engineer who can architect and deliver innovative complex highimpact software systems that delight our customers

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer on our team you will:
Design implement and launch highquality software systems that solve complex problems and have a significant impact
Leverage a wide range of AWS technologies to build fullstack web applications distributed systems and automation workflows
Develop code for a diverse array of Amazon Devices
Collaborate crossfunctionally with engineering product customers and business stakeholders to drive innovative solutions
Promote a culture of engineering excellence by establishing best practices and technical standards across the organization
Consult with engineers across the company on the architecture and design of new systems helping to solve our most challenging engineering problems
Identify opportunities for process improvement and lead initiatives to enhance engineering efficiency and productivity

A day in the life
Collaborates with stakeholders to deeply understand business requirements
Analyzes and documents comprehensive needs and priorities across products
Translates requirements into welldefined software product features
Defines clear wellscoped software features to address requirements
Designs scalable robust technical architectures and implementations
Builds and maintains highly available missioncritical device services
Proactively monitors performance troubleshoots issues optimizes systems
Partners crossfunctionally to deliver exceptional usercentric solutions


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

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