Software Development Engineer Application Framework

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the bestselling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Echo and Amazon Show.

The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences giving customers instant access to everything digital or is a unique technical role where you will have the opportunity to influence invent and design system architecture across multiple product and technology spaces (Alexa devices IoT devices etc.. You will join a team whose mission is to ensure that stateoftheart technologies serving the customer are supported via flexible software architectures OS and Hardware Platform abstraction testability and scalability across multiple device types.

You will be a technical leader who drives crossplatform build and configuration systems for target platforms across Linux Android and other OSes. You also contribute core framework software such as those that manage IPC/RPC lifecycle event handling security and other architectural elements that define how modules coexist in an embedded platform.

You will dive into an ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices tradeoffs and priorities. You are data and metric driven and obsessively concerned about performance in under resourceconstrained environments. You love to share best practices influence and align teams and be a technical ambassador for software reuse across the wider Amazon organization.


Key job responsibilities
Design and develop the application framework components
Work closely with the products teams to create framework components
Think big to create new features that help evangelize App Framework components to internal and external customers.
migrate applications to rust

About the team
The framework components are horizontal OS system services that applications and native service daemons will leverage. The framework components play a critical role in system performance and differentiating the application behavior in the operating system.

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

3 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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