Software Development Engineer II, E Reader Software

• Have you ever wanted to be part of a team that builds highly efficient system for E-reader?
• Are you looking at creating value for millions of customers as we launch more E-readers with additional capabilities? Do you want to work at a company where you are the owner, where you are encouraged to build, and where you have the autonomy to push boundaries? Do you have a passion for designing system that is an enabler for builders that create applications on top of it? This describes your daily journey. Are you ready? Then join us!

• Key job responsibilities
• As a Software Development Engineer, you will own adding capabilities as we unlock more features on Kindle E-reader family. Our goal is to make it fast, easy and low-cost for our internal application developers to build features and release them on our E-reader stack.
• You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams across Amazon.
• You should be comfortable with a level of depth that you need to dive into as we solve deep operating system level problems! We will need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: software, hardware as well as automation.
• You design and develop the critical components in the operating system as well as low-level components in E-reader that make the product a performant, secure and power optimized device. You also write applications on top of our unique Kindle Operating system.
• Along the way you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.
• •You are proficient in C/C++ to understand internals of E-reader. If you know React Native, it will be a bonus as you can also write applications in E-reader.
• •Collaborate with experienced Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative components in E-reader
• •Architect and design a secure software that protects customer data stored on the devices.

• A day in the life
• In this role, you will be actively engaged in developing our system and writing applications that are based on C/C++ and react native. You will also be a lead engineer guiding junior members in this role.

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

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