Description

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Since then, we have worked to produce best-selling e-readers and tablets, as well as new inventions like Fire TV and Echo. What will you help us create?

Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

The Role:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer – Platform, you will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. You will work closely with the hardware, ops, user-space and QA teams. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. The Device OS team is responsible for the delivery and maintenance of a high-performance, low-power, stable platform.

The Software Engineer will provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation and support of platform components (kernel, boot loader, user space system libraries and hardware specific framework implementation) of full stack device software solution. This hands-on position requires broad engineering competence and in-depth technical knowledge of embedded software development, as well as demonstrated experience successfully planning, organizing, and conducting software development projects in a dynamic environment. In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for the architecture of software solutions, determining current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of major routines and utilities.

• Maintain and improve existing software.

• Prepare technical requirements and software design specifications.

• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.

Key job responsibilities

Build the LXC technology base on QC platform and feature break down.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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