Amazon Device Software & Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We use our superpowers and passion for building the impossible to help launch the next generation of innovative devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Dash Amazon Echo and the new Amazon Key (as well as a few more we cant mention yet).
Our teams in Seattle Denver Sunnyvale Dublin Japan Mexico and beyond are all committed to building the best devices for customers worldwide. Some of our team highlights:
- We directly impact how customers interact with our devices
- We build technologies that power our device sales and supply chain businesses
- We lead beta and device launch programs
- We help scale and automate
Key job responsibilities
Architect and deliver complex software systems that align with Amazons engineering standards and business objectives
Drive technical decisions and design reviews that impact multiple services or teams within the organization
Lead development of critical features while mentoring junior engineers in technical best practices and engineering principles
Establish and maintain robust monitoring metrics and operational excellence practices for high-availability systems
Define and enforce code quality standards testing strategies and documentation requirements across projects
Proactively identify and resolve complex technical challenges while implementing preventive measures
Design and implement privacy-preserving features that protect customer data without compromising system functionality
Participate in building high-performing teams through technical interviews and making data-driven hiring recommendations
- 5 years of non-internship 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
- 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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