Senior Software Development Engineer E-reader software

Have you ever wanted to be part of a team that builds highly efficient platform for Ereader Amazons Ereader platform team owns the operating system stack(C/C) and the lowlevel components that make the device energy efficient with weeks of battery life. We recently launched Kindle Scribe a larger form factor device that now unlocks reading as well as taking notes.

Are you looking at creating value for millions of customers as we launch more Ereaders with additional capabilities Do you want to work at a company where you are the owner where you are encouraged to build and where you have the autonomy to push boundaries Do you have a passion for creating an operating system that is an enabler for builders that create applications on top of it This describes your daily journey. Are you ready Then join us!

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will own adding capabilities as we unlock more features on Kindle Ereader family. Our goal is to make it fast easy and lowcost for our internal application developers to build features and release them on our Ereader stack.
You will tackle challenging novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative youll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams across Amazon.
You should be comfortable with a level of depth that you need to dive into as we solve deep operating system level problems! We will need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software hardware networks and distributed systems as well as automation.
You design and develop the critical components in the operating system as well as lowlevel components in Ereader that make the product a performant secure and power optimized device.
Along the way youll learn a ton have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.
You are an expert in C/C as well as internal concepts of operating system who identify further modernization of our OS stack.
Collaborate with experienced Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative components in Ereader
Architect and design a secure software that protects customer data stored on the devices.
Identify what it means to keep the software stack uptodate keeping an eye on advancements both in hardware as well as software.

A day in the life
In this role you will be actively engaged in developing our operating system and the lowlevel components that are based on C/C. You will be contacted by many Amazonians as they deploy their software on Ereader. You will also be the lead engineer for your team in guiding them both on design and best practices.

5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
Hands on experience on Software Architecture design coding experience in Java REST API C including objectoriented programming. Use of OOPS concepts design patterns designing reliable scalable systems.
Experience using AWS infra service and tools.
Knowledge of software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management processes QA methodologies and operations.

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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