Software Development Engineer, Luna DevX

The Amazon Luna team is leveraging the power of the cloud to enable customers to experience the rich and immersive world of gaming on all of their existing devices. Luna represents an exciting and truly new product and business with a high degree of innovation and an opportunity to reach a large volume of passionate customers.
As a Software Development Engineer working on the developer experience for Luna you will get to combine your passion for gaming AWS and building great developer experiences.

The team you will be joining is responsible for a wide variety of services websites and tools that leverage the latest technologies and languages including: ECS Fargate Lambda CDK Docker React Kotlin TypeScript C and more. The ideal candidate will have a good mix of distributed systems in AWS web services design and experience building client-side tools. You should also be customer-centric and have a passion to invent and simplify for our customers.

As a Software Development Engineer you will have help influence our overall strategy by refining these product features drive the system architecture and contribute to best practices that enable a quality product. To be successful you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial comfortable operating with ambiguity data-driven and able to develop prototypes quickly.

If you have a flair for innovation and passion for solving challenging problems we need you!



About the team
Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming service that makes it easy for anyone to play high-quality games on the devices they already ownincluding Fire TV and tablet devices smartphones tablets web browsers select smart televisions from LG and Samsung and more--with no need to purchase new gaming consoles or equipment. Luna brings more than 50 games to Prime members at no additional cost including GameNight an evolving collection of more than 25 approachable local multiplayer games designed to bring friends and family together in the living room. To play GameNight titles simply scan a QR code on your TV and your smartphone becomes your controller. With simple and responsive touchscreen inputs and support for multiple local players GameNight offers and easy and approachable way to play whether youre an experienced gamer of a casual fan.


- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Irvine - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually