Amazon Kindle is a revolutionary reading device and one of the most innovative and fastest growing businesses at Amazon. We are seeking a passionate Senior Software Development Engineer who wants to push the boundaries of Kindle platform development to help shape the future of Kindle devices.
Key job responsibilities
As part of this role you will be:
Designing and implementing system-level software on Kindle devices system, with deep involvement in framework customization and platform bring-up.
Owning and optimizing critical platform subsystems ).
Driving architectural decisions for platform-level features, balancing performance, power efficiency, and user experience on resource-constrained embedded devices.
Mentoring junior engineers, conducting design reviews, and raising the bar on code quality, testing practices, and operational excellence.
Collaborating cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, and application teams to deliver tightly integrated solutions from silicon to screen.
Investigating and resolving complex system-level issues spanning kernel, HAL, framework, and application layers.
A day in the life
This hands-on coding position will actively involve you in Kindle platform development — profiling display latency, tuning power state machines, debugging kernel panics for Kindle-specific hardware. You'll work on new device bring-up and with application teams to ensure platform APIs meet product requirements. You'll gain deep expertise in Kindle system while shipping software to millions of customers worldwide.
About the team
We are the Kindle Device team responsible that powers all Kindle e-readers. Our mission is to deliver a best-in-class reading experience through a highly optimized, power-efficient, and reliable platform.
Join us in shaping the future of Kindle devices, where deep systems expertise meets delightful customer experiences.
Join us in shaping the future of Kindle devices, where innovation and user satisfaction are our driving forces.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 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 in computer science or equivalent
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