Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 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

Desirable

• The Amazon Devices team designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics
• We have produced amazin devices like Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo
• What will you help us create?
• Along with leading in web services and e-commerce, Amazon
• Com is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer’s high-profile consumer electronics including our best-selling e-readers and tablets, and Fire TV
• 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 the latest 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
• In this role you will:
• 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
• We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative, mission critical, high-volume applications that customers love
• You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of 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