Sr Software Development Engineer, FireTV

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. We have produced amazin devices like Kindle Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Dash and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create

Along with leading in web services and e-commerce is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics including our best-selling e-readers and tablets and Fire TV.

Fire TV client software and services technologies are enjoyed by millions of customers the world over. You will drive key engineering and business decisions that impact Amazons long-term vision including innovation in the delivery and consumption of media and entertainment. We leverage the latest technology in client-app frameworks big data machine learning optimization techniques and high availability services. Here on the Fire TV team we are dedicated to creating the most engaging entertainment platform for the whole family this role you will:

- Lead the design of new features and initiatives across the organization.
- Investigate prototype and deliver new and innovative software applications.
- Deliver high quality software through working in a dynamic team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

We are looking for passionate hard-working and talented software engineers who have experience building innovative mission critical high-volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design architecture and implementation of products used every day by people you know. This is a high visibility team where you will get a chance to make a positive impact on customer experience.


Key job responsibilities
The Millibyte team builds a framework and tooling that allows teams across the Devices org to build highly performant native services that work across all Amazon device platforms not just Fire TV. Youll be responsible for supporting broad initiatives that support our ability to launch new device hardware and software. Youll help create our core software written in the ground breaking Rust programming language consistently ranked the most admired programming language year-over-year on StackOverflow. Our customers are primarily the dozens of internal teams building the audio video voice advertising recommendations network and many other services needed to make Fire TV work. As such this role gives unprecedented opportunities to meet and work with Amazonians across the organization.

About the team
The Millibyte team has a mission to help teams convert all device middleware to native code. We provide the cross platform tools and software to allow teams to build low memory low CPU low footprint middleware that is portable to any Amazon device platform.

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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

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

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 - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually