Software Development Engineer, Device Cloud Services - OTA

The Device Software and Services organization (DS2) is specialized in building foundational platform solutions that cater to a number of critical customer experiences. We are the cloud platform solution provider for the Device businesses ranging from the E-Reader to Echo Family of Devices and expanding into third-party devices that connect to Amazon eco-system.

We are hiring for Software Development Engineers for the Over-the-Air updates team. We create and maintain the device components as well as the cloud infrastructure responsible for distributing new software and applications to all Amazon Devices, and a number of third-party devices.

We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume services that customers love.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for

• Designing, implementing and launching high-quality software systems to solve complex problems with big impact
• Working across a broad range of AWS technologies to build full-stack web applications, distributed systems software and automation workflows
• Developing code for a broad range of Amazon Devices.
• Collaborating with a diverse range of cross-functional roles, including engineering, product, customers and business stakeholders across the company
• Promoting a culture of engineering excellence by establishing best practices and technical standards across the organization
• Consulting with engineers from across the organization on architecture and design of new systems to solve some of our hardest engineering problems

A day in the life

During the day-to-day, a DS2 SDE

• Communicates with other business teams in E-Reader/Tablet/FireTV/Alexa to name a few.
• Collects the business requirements,
• Helps describe software product features,
• Builds technical designs and architecture.
• Writes code with at most care for customer's data security and customer's privacy.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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