Software Development Engineer, DevOps - Device OS

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 and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

We are looking for a skilled Software Development Engineer to design and build selfservice tools that help software development teams push code to production at speed. Our tools support multiple workflows plugin to various services across Amazon and scale as workloads increase. Our team owns feature development performance scalability and excellence on all our tools. You will work directly with our customers to make sure that changes and feature requests are balanced with performance and stability.

It is a challenge to work with hundreds of developers who rely on these tools and is also a great opportunity for engineers who are looking to push themselves and prove that they can achieve great things.

Our tools are critical to developer productivity which means architecting a scalable faulttolerant system is essential.

You will engage with experienced crossdisciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative environment. You will take part in designing solutions to hard problems across a global platform. You will work closely with multiple development teams to drive the SDLC from concept to launch and ensuring the highest level of excellence for your deliverables.


Who is our team

We are a team of experienced engineers in the Device OS org who own the build and release infrastructure as well as developer experience selfservice tools that cater to the rest of our OS and Application developer community. Our engineers have backgrounds that range from SCM and DevOps to expertise in AWS technology stacks Yocto Build Toolchains and productivity tools. The OS and application developers are our customers and our roadmap is driven by the desire to improve their development experience.

Why Us

Youll have plenty of opportunities to learn and contribute in other functional areas owned by the team. The impact from your work will be very tangible and fulfilling as we serve a large developer community.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

Responsible for the development and maintenance of key features.
Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
Driving your own projects from design through planning to execution. Also work with teams across Amazon on crossteam initiatives.
Planning and coordinating feature improvements and upgrades around services.
Improving the user experience around services.
Analyzing and improving availability efficiency capacity scalability security and performance of our services.
Representing Systems while working with internal teams and external partners.
Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems as part of our oncall rotation.
Developing and maintaining tools.

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
Experience with AWS stack
Python Programming

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.