Software Development Engineer, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling 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 physical.

Are you someone looking to showcase your skills How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a cross-functional team tasked with innovating the building blocks of device software If this sounds intriguing then wed like to talk to you about a new role at Amazon.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Common Software team you will be part of a team that owns critical Android framework components services tools and application development frameworks - working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction.

You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer product experiences. You must be responsive flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing prototyping and building solutions to hard problems in the Android and Amazon ecosystem.


Key job responsibilities
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
- Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
- Build reliable high- SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
- Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
- Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
- Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions workshops presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team

A day in the life
You will be a part of an agile development team following innovative best practices in software development where youll lead a team on technical designs and architecture. To build our app based experiences you will interact with product teams to gather requirements support feasibility analysis and to provide technical solutions that are required in defining our next generation products. One of the important aspects of the role is to develop the best and youll have opportunities to build a team and mentor others by sharing your knowledge across multiple teams as we build a truly unique UI app development experience.

About the team
Our team exists to enable application teams to swiftly create delightful performant and interactive applications that span across Amazon and our external partner devices. We are responsible for delivering performance tooling that help our customers to measure the performance and profile the apps to find the root cause of performance issues and we do so by showing the utmost customer obsession. As a part of the Device OS organization youll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end covering product conception to shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.