AmazonSoftware Engineer, Fauna
Amazon is hiring a Software Engineer, Fauna in New York, United States. It pays $158k-$214k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Build and own cloud services and telemetry ingestion pipelines connecting a growing fleet of robots to cloud systems.
The ideal candidate has built distributed systems that connect physical devices to cloud services end to end. They are comfortable building and operating the services they own from prototyping through launch and beyond. They make sound architectural tradeoffs across privacy, security, reliability, delivery speed, and cost when requirements are still evolving. They work effectively across robotics, product, and operations teams while remaining hands-on in design and implementation.
Key job responsibilities
- Build and own the cloud services that connect a growing fleet of robots to customer experiences and internal operations
- Build operational telemetry ingestion pipelines that process high-frequency robot signals
- Select technologies where the stack is undefined, document the decisions, and set patterns for a growing team
- Join the on-call rotation for the services you own and drive incident response
- Work with science, engineering, and product teams to define requirements and operationalize new workflows
About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
We believe that future won't arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We're changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We're building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful.
At Fauna, you'll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It's an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build.
If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we're interested in hearing from you.
Basic qualifications
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 3+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience working in a cloud based development and production environment such as AWS
- Experience owning a service end to end: design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building backends for physical devices, where clients drop off the network and return with stale state.
- Experience with device or fleet connectivity at scale: MQTT, device identity and certificate management, offline-tolerant sync, or an IoT platform (AWS IoT Core, Greengrass, or equivalent).
- Experience with real-time telemetry ingestion and streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, or time-series stores).
- Experience with over-the-air update delivery and staged fleet rollouts.
- Experience securing connected devices: secure provisioning, secrets management, and data privacy.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and operational tooling (Terraform, CDK, Kubernetes).
- Experience in robotics, automotive, connected home, or another domain where software runs on hardware in the field.
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 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.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Software Engineer, Fauna at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cloud services was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where telemetry was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Telemetry, Software Engineering, and AWS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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