Senior System Development Engineer, Emerging Device Software

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development group that designs and develops high-profile consumer electronics devices. Emerging Device Software team is working on next generation of devices in smart eyewear and wearable categories. We are looking for System Development Engineer who can design and implement scalable build and release infrastructure. This role is specially for engineers who have extensive experience in DevOps.


Key job responsibilities
What you'll be working on,
* This engineer will lead the design and implementation of new tools, pipelines and automation, will work with developers, system architects, hardware engineers.
* 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.
* 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.
* Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the software release process.


A day in the life
As a Senior System Development Engineer, you will design and develop tools needed to automate build and release infrastructure. You will manage the infrastructure for high availability, monitor security and compliance.


About the team
Emerging Device Software team owns all the components and infrastructure of next generation of products. The team is responsible for defining architecture, design and implementation of next generation of products. The team develops embedded software using programming languages like C, C++ on both Linux/Android and RTOS based systems. Team also maintains build and release infrastructure. The team uses automated build and release system using both amazon internal and industry standard tools.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- 5+ years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience with automation and any version control tools, or experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem and experience in software development
- Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl, Ruby), or experience scripting in modern programming languages
- Experience with the AWS platform, web services, software development, or related technologie

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++, or experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 2+ years of hands-on infrastructure, troubleshooting, systems administration, networking, DevOps or applications development experience
- AWS certification, such as, AWS Solutions Architect, or a similar cloud certification, or Associate's degree or above

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