Overview Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab126 has produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126 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. 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 quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world class, highly accomplished team, we would love to talk with you. This Sr. Software Development Engineer role will be responsible to create innovative Embedded solutions enabling new/unique experiences for our customers with a wide range of 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 Multimedia domain (Audio, Video), good knowledge on HAL/HIDL is preferred along with a strong code craftsmanship principles and a good understanding of the scalable software system design. In addition, provide technical consultation across different organization, 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. Responsibilities Lead the technical aspects of core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to design, implement and bring to market innovative consumer products. Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to design middleware and cloud services; detail requirements with Product Management and ensure quality of code and design; mentor junior team members to meet quality standards. Contribute hands-on engineering work across Embedded software, Linux middleware, and C/C++ device software modules; apply strong code craftsmanship principles. Work with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for Device OS deliverables. Provide technical consultation across organizations and solve customer needs, tackling device-specific technical problems. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 8 years of non-internship professional software development experience 8 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 7 years of experience in Multimedia domain, with hands-on experience in Audio, Video Codec, and streaming technologies 8 years of experience in C++ programming language and OS Middleware Strong debugging skills to navigate and root cause across multi-component systems PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 8 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 In-depth knowledge and working experience in OS Middleware, Multimedia tech stack Experience in optimizing the tech stack for performance, memory, etc. Hands-on experience with various codecs (Audio and Video), handling AV sync issues Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. J-18808-Ljbffr