Software Development Engineer II

Amazon Lab
126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab
126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of , Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab
126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab
126 providing the core OS, platform, features, and components.

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 quickly and in a cost-effective way.

If you love to be hands‑on designing and implementing a quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world‑class, highly accomplished team, we would love to talk with you.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will contribute to 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 Software Development Engineer role will be responsible for creating innovative and unique experiences for our customers across Amazon Devices. This hands‑on position also requires broad engineering competency in Embedded Software, Linux middleware, C/C++‑based device software modules, and application development, strong experience in the Multimedia domain (Audio, Video), good knowledge of HAL/HIDL (preferred), and a strong code craftsmanship principle and a good understanding of scalable software system design.

You will provide technical consultation across different organizations, find innovative ways to solve customer needs, and take up interesting technical problems that are unique to devices. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.

• Design middleware and cloud services by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work on both Fire OS and Amazon's Vega OS.
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to detail out / disambiguate requirements.
• Own the quality of your own work (code/design) and help junior members in the team meet or exceed the quality bar.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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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