Software Development Engineer, Devices Developer Experience

The Amazon Fire TV software organization is responsible for building software, services, and tooling needed to deliver the Fire TV experience to millions of customers on current and next-gen devices.

The Fire TV team is looking for a Software Development Engineer for their Developer Experience team. As a member of this team you will work closely with OS and application development teams to integrate new capabilities, develop features and tooling that increase developer velocity, define standards and best practices, and innovate to increase product quality. You will demonstrate your work by implementing best-of-breed production applications and infrastructure that will be used by millions of customers on the next generation of Fire TV devices.

Key job responsibilities

• Understand the application development and product release lifecycle and the tooling used to achieve it. From IDEs, to debuggers, to build automation, and platform libraries, the engineer must be able to dig into and evaluate a broad spectrum of tooling used to create production quality applications.
• Build, deploy and maintain production software on the Fire TV platform.
• Be fungible and able to develop across a variety of languages and environments. Application development uses React-Native, C/C++ and Rust, while tooling spans Python, Node, and Typescript at this time. Build environments use a mix of AWS, the internal Amazon ecosystem, and external tooling.
• Independently own a cross-team and even cross-organizational workstream. Achieving alignment and buy-in from partners is critical to success. Must be able to provide work breakdowns, roadmaps and clarity to stakeholders. Must be able to lead and coordinate efforts with additional engineers, including away-team support.
• Exercise hire and develop the best by mentoring junior engineers and peers and develop an interviewing skillset. Provide consistent high-quality feedback on code reviews, designs, and in team meetings.

About The Team

The Fire TV Developer Experience team is an engineering team that is passionate about the engineering experience. We need opinionated developers that can find constructive and innovative ways to streamline the experience of all Fire TV application developers, while simultaneously building and maintaining production applications and infrastructure. We are looking for ways to increase developer velocity and product quality using automation, generative AI, testing, and continuous integration.

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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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
• 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
• Experience working with generative AI to solve practical real-world problems.

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