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, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
Work hard. Have fun. Make history.
We are looking for a skilled Software Development Engineer to design and build self-service tools that help software development teams push code to production, at speed. Our tools support multiple workflows, plugin to various services across Amazon and scale as workloads increase. Our team owns feature development, performance, scalability and excellence on all our tools. You will work directly with our customers to make sure that changes and feature requests are balanced with performance and stability.
It is a challenge to work with hundreds of developers who rely on these tools and is also a great opportunity for engineers who are looking to push themselves and prove that they can achieve great things.
Our tools are critical to developer productivity, which means architecting a scalable, fault-tolerant system is essential.
You will engage with experienced, cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative solutions. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative environment. You will take part in designing solutions to hard problems across a global platform. You will work closely with multiple development teams to drive the SDLC from concept to launch and ensuring the highest level of excellence for your deliverables.
Who is our team
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We are a team of experienced engineers in the Device OS org who own the build and release infrastructure, as well as developer experience self-service tools, that cater to the rest of our OS and Application developer community. Our engineers have backgrounds that range from SCM and DevOps to expertise in AWS technology stacks, Yocto, Build Toolchains and productivity tools. The OS and application developers are our customers and our roadmap is driven by the desire to improve their development experience.
Why Us
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You’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn and contribute in other functional areas owned by the team. The impact from your work will be tangible as we serve a large developer community.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of key features.
- Will work with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Driving your own projects, from design through planning to execution. Also work with teams across Amazon on cross-team initiatives.
- Planning and coordinating feature improvements and upgrades around services.
- Improving the user experience around services.
- Analyzing and improving availability, efficiency, capacity, scalability, security and performance of our services.
- Representing Systems while working with internal teams and external partners.
- Troubleshooting and resolving problems with production systems as part of our on-call rotation.
- Developing and maintaining tools.- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
