3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ 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
You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative customer experiences. You will create new solutions in a responsive, flexible and collaborative peer environment. You will participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Amazon ecosystem for our exciting future in consumer devices.
**Job responsibilities**:
OS performance/stability optimizations and improvements
**Our main focus areas are**:
- Understanding of complex system. Ability to dive deep, understand how big, complicated software system works, be able to extract this info from the code and limited documentation
- Communication. Ability to explain a complicated issue to a fellow engineers as well as execs, clear and concise verbal and written communication.
Key job responsibilities
**As a Software Development Engineer, you will**:
- Understand and refine the scope of incoming projects
- Design and implement reliable, components and tools to improve the performance and stability for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar
- Experiment and prototype with novel technologies that improve the customer experience and solve business needs
- Work with internal and external engineering teams to understand and respond to their needs
- Organize and participate in collaborative Q&A sessions, workshops, presentations to share your technical know-how
- Mentor junior team members in career growth
This is a brand new team in Mexico, working on a confidential project. Reach out to learn more details.
A day in the life
- Understand the partner teams' needs to improve the existing infrastructure to optimize OS performance
- Design and implement tools to analyze performance and stability issues to enable teams to solve them systematically
About the team
The team is in charge of OS performance and stability, looking proactively for new ways of making best in class OS and devices.
Guadalajara, JAL, MEX | Guadalajara, MEX
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 6+ years of embedded software development experience using C/C++
- 2+ years of experience in Linux or Android platforms
- Good understanding of Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL), Android or Linux frameworks
- Knowledge on domains like Audio, Media, Graphics, Display, System, Connectivity, etc.
- Experience with Chromium or WebKit
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to drive innovation and passionate about new technologies
- Proven ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead OR leading an engineering team