Senior Systems Development Engineer, Device OS Builder Tools

The Device OS organization owns the OS solutions that run on Amazon Devices such as the Fire Tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo. This team is responsible for the Developer Tools and Services that enable developers across the company to track develop review build and test high quality software for these platforms.

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer you will be solving challenging problems and developing scalable high-performing solutions that require minimal long term sustaining and development support. You will partner with Systems Engineers Network Engineers and Software Engineers to develop simple and efficient technology that supports our test and development platforms.. We value ingenuity simplicity and scalability in our your day-to-day work you will focus on automation of complex tasks to allow our business to scale with customer demand.





Key job responsibilities
- Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights.
- Instrument monitor and drive improvements through metrics on the success of your tools and services.
- Participate in designing prototyping building and maintaining reliable and high-performance tools and services.
- Analyze and improve availability efficiency capacity scalability security performance and user experience of our services.
- Mentor junior team members in career growth.

- 6 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C C# Java Python Golang PowerShell Ruby experience
- 6 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- 6 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience leading the design build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
- 4 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience

- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235200/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.