Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Millibyte
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$129.3-223.6k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Our team is is looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high volume applications that customers love
- 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Desirable
- 5+ 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
- 1+ years of Android development experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design, or experience programming with at least one software programming language
What the job involves
- Fire TV client software and services technologies are enjoyed by millions of customers the world over
- You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazon’s long-term vision, including innovation in the delivery and consumption of media and entertainment
- We leverage robust and emerging technology in client-app frameworks, big data, machine learning, optimization techniques and high availability services
- Here on the Fire TV team, we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family, worldwide
- Lead the design of new features and initiatives across the organization
- Investigate, prototype, and deliver new and innovative software applications
- Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment
- You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of leading products used every day, by people you know
- This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience
- The Millibyte team builds a framework and tooling that allows teams across the Devices org to build highly performant native services that work across all Amazon device platforms, not just Fire TV
- You'll be responsible for supporting broad initiatives that support our ability to launch new device hardware and software
- . You'll help create our core software written in the ground breaking Rust programming language, consistently ranked the most admired programming language year-over-year on StackOverflow
- Our customers are primarily the dozens of internal teams building the audio, video, voice, advertising, recommendations, network, and many other services needed to make Fire TV work
- As such, this role gives unprecedented opportunities to meet and work with Amazonians across the organization
- The Millibyte team has a mission to help teams convert all device middleware to native code
- We provide the cross platform tools and software to allow teams to build low memory, low CPU, low footprint middleware that is portable to any Amazon device platform
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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