Sr. Software Development Engineer III, 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 and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

We are looking for a skilled engineer to design and build self-service tools that help software development teams publish code 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 thousands 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 fault-tolerant system is essential.

You will engage with experienced cross-disciplinary 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 DevOps teams to drive software development from concept to launch while maintaining a high bar for your deliverables.

Scope of Work

As a senior member of the team youll be leading the architecture and optimization of our build tooling and CI/CD infrastructure that powers more than a dozen product lines. Youll work directly with customers across the organization propose and implement self-service tools to enable software development teams to publish code at scale and speed. The solutions you develop will power one of the largest build fleets at Amazon and will impact the productivity of hundreds of developers. The work you do will be at the forefront of new product initiatives and development and will enable the next generation of Amazon devices. The tools and features you will develop being critical to developer productivity will be fault tolerant as well as designed for scale.

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 self-service 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.


Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of key features.
- Work with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Drive your own projects from design through planning to execution. Also work with teams across Amazon on cross-team initiatives.
- Plan and coordinate feature improvements and upgrades around services.
- Improve the user experience around services.
- Analyze and improve availability efficiency capacity scalability security and performance of our services.
- Represent Systems while working with internal teams and external partners.
- Troubleshoot and resolve problems with production systems as part of our on-call rotation.
- Develop and maintain tools.

- 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/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.