System Development Engineer, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Inc. originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then Lab126 has produced devices like Fire tablets Fire TV Amazon Echo and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126 providing the core OS platform features and components.

In the Device OS group we are inventing the future for consumer electronics and are looking for a system development engineer II to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real world challenges that will transform our customers experiences in ways we cant even imagine yet. The team develops scalable cloud solutions that enable our partners to quickly build and launch services / devices quickly pin a cost-effective way. If you love to be hands on designing and implementing quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world class highly accomplished team we would love to talk with you.

This role is specially for engineers who have extensive experience in DevOps / SRE roles and at the same time meeting SysDev guideline. As a System Development Engineer II you will technically contribute to a complex charter of building and delivering T1 cloud services for Device OS. You will implement initiatives defined as part of roadmap of multi year business critical cloud technology solution which will be rolled out of multiple devices across millions of devices. Work on delivering technical initiatives that are defined to drive cost optimization across various AWS environments manage availability latency and performance of our mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. You will periodically participate in reviewing capacity planning sizing and optimization of Cloud platform. You will work closely with Platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.

• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience in Kubernetes Docker or containers ecosystem or experience with automation and any version control tools and experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• 2 years of DevOps or SysOps in a large-scale software development environment experience
• Experience scripting in one or more language (e.g. Bash Python Perl Ruby) or experience scripting in modern programming languages
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Bachelors degree or AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification
• Experience in software development or experience in Kubernetes Docker or containers ecosystem
• 2Years of working experience in infrastructure automation and deployment using CDK
• Experience with distributed systems at scale

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116300 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $201200 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and / or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Key Skills

VMware,System Design,Computer Networking,PowerShell,Microsoft Windows Server,Windows,Systems Engineering,AWS,Requirements Management,Linux,SAN,Dns

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 116300 - 201200