Software Development Engineer, Device OS

Job Summary

This role is for a highly challenging, complex, and large-scale project at Amazon, involving extensive use of AWS services and integrations. The successful Software Development Engineer, Device OS will be instrumental in CI/CD pipeline creation and management, CDK development, cloud application development, deployment across multiple AWS regions, and tools development for monitoring and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design (High-level and Low-level) for specific features.
• Own end-to-end depth for specific feature sets, maintaining breadth across others.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members.

A Day in the Life

• Feature development and implementation.
• Participate in peer code and design reviews.
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders (Development and QA) to clarify requirements and resolve dependencies.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure operational excellence.

About The Team

The team is focused on a business-critical, high-visibility, large-scale project with high device volume. This involves both embedded development (Device side) and Cloud development, utilizing AWS services, APIs, CDK, pipelines, and container management.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, scaling) for new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.
• 2+ years of Amazon experience, or experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• 3+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud-based technologies and services.

Key skills/competency

• AWS Services
• CI/CD Pipelines
• CDK Development
• Cloud Architecture
• Embedded Development
• Object-Oriented Design
• Software Engineering Best Practices
• Distributed Systems
• Java/C++/C#
• Operational Excellence