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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Device OS in Mexico City, Mexico
Description
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, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.
This is a unique technical role where you will have the opportunity to influence, invent, and design platform architecture across multiple product and technology spaces (Alexa devices, IoT devices, etc.). Working directly with platform vendors, you will be building the foundation upon which many internal as well as external products will be based. You will design and abstract platform solutions necessary to support 1000’s of products with scalability and quality as your top tenets. Working with additional interface owners, you will design and implement automated tests necessary to support your designs. You will join a team whose mission is to ensure that state-of-the-art technologies that serve the customer can be supported via flexible software architectures, OS and Hardware Platform abstraction, testability, and scalability across multiple device types.
You will dive into ambiguous problem spaces and meticulously distill out design choices, trade-offs, and priorities. You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance in resource- constrained environments. You love to share best practices, influence and align teams, and be a technical ambassador for software reuse across the wider Amazon organization.
Key job responsibilities
You will be working on a wide range of platform-level components for Amazon device families that are built based on embedded Linux.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will:
Influence strategy and roadmap through your technical and non-technical insights
Work with a team of world-class engineers and product managers to understand and refine the scope of incoming projects, and to ensure deliverables meet an unreasonably high quality bar
Build reliable, high-performance SDKs for a variety of Amazon Devices, such as Amazon Echo and FireTV
Actively experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience or solve business needs
Mentor junior team members in career growth and assist in task management and Agile planning
Work with multiple top-notch internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how with the rest of the team
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
Experience programming with Python, TypeScript or C++
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