Software Development Engineer, Device Software Services, Arcus - Amazon Device Remote Configuration

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Design and develop scalable, high-performance remote configuration management services and infrastructure for Amazon devices and apps.

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Amazon Device Remote Configuration Team exist to ensure app developers have delightful configuration management experience using the product by enabling them to update content, customize behavior, or turn on features in their apps/devices without waiting on an app store approval process through remote configuration.

As a SDE on the team, you will be responsible for leading the architecture, design, development and launch of some of the core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.

The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrated track record of success in independently delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Key job responsibilities
1. Responsible for the architecture of software solutions, working with and improving on current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, building new concepts and methodology, and the development of major routines and utilities.
2. Proactively liaise with both business teams and other technical teams and to mentor junior engineers in the team.
3. Preparation of technical requirements and software design specifications.
4. Instilling best practices for software development and documentation, making sure designs meet requirements, and delivering high quality software on tight schedules.

About the team
Amazon Remote Configuration team (aka Arcus) owns Amazon's remote configuration management service that enables applications and devices to retrieve, cache, and synchronize configuration data efficiently at scale. As a critical infrastructure service, Arcus powers configuration management for thousands of applications across Amazon's ecosystem, from mobile devices to backend services, ensuring consistent and reliable configuration delivery across diverse platforms and environments.

Key job responsibilities
• Designing, implementing and launching high-quality software systems to solve complex problems with big impact
• Working across a broad range of AWS technologies to build full-stack web applications, distributed systems software and automation workflows
• Developing code for a broad range of Amazon Devices.
• Collaborating with a diverse range of cross-functional roles, including engineering, product, customers and business stakeholders across the company
• Promoting a culture of engineering excellence by establishing best practices and technical standards across the organization
• Consulting with engineers from across the organization on architecture and design of new systems to solve some of our hardest engineering problems

A day in the life
• Communicates with other business teams in E-Reader/Tablet/FireTV/Alexa to name a few.
• Collects the business requirements,
• Helps describe software product features,
• Builds technical designs and architecture.
• Writes code with at most care for customer's data security and customer's privacy.

Basic qualifications

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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