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Software Development Engineer II

Amazon, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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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 Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button.

In the Device OS group, we are inventing the future for consumer electronics and are looking for a software development engineer to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. The team develops scalable cloud solutions that enable our partners to quickly build and launch devices cost‑effectively.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to the core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross‑disciplinary staff to design, implement, and bring to market innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

This role will be responsible for creating innovative and unique experiences for our customers across a wide range of Amazon Devices. It requires broad engineering competency in Embedded Software, Linux middleware, C/C++‑based device software modules, application development, and strong experience in the Multimedia domain (Audio, Video). Knowledge of HAL/HIDL is preferred, as are strong code craftsmanship principles and an understanding of scalable software system design. You will provide technical consultation across different organizations, find innovative ways to solve customer needs, and tackle interesting technical problems unique to devices. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.

Key Job Responsibilities

Design and develop middleware and cloud services in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Work on both Fire OS and Amazon’s Vega OS.

Collaborate with the Product Management team to detail out and disambiguate the requirements.

Own the quality of your own work (code/design) and help junior team members meet or exceed the quality bar.

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.

2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

3+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

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