Sr. System Development Engineer , AWS Device Farm

We are hiring Senior Engineers to lead the development of world's largest elastic grid of real physical smart devices, desktop browsers and device simulators. The grid provides customers instantaneous access to a large variety of smart devices and browsers, anywhere in the world, any time of the day.

You will not only lead architecture development for key service components, but will also provide technical leadership across a wide spectrum of technologies, including large-scale globally distributed systems, IoT technologies, browser technologies, edge computing, systems engineering and machine learning at scale.

There are 20B connected devices in the world, with millions of developers writing apps for those. Our mission is to democratize smart device application development by bringing all types of devices on AWS cloud. This is an incredible opportunity to shape the future of smart-device application development

This is an incredible opportunity to define the technical vision of a fast-evolving AWS service and lead a service that meets AWS's high bar for availability, scalability, and security, and make significant business impact.

You will enjoy working on complex and fast evolving domain of device browser technologies and influence across the following areas:

[Large Scale Globally Distributed Systems] – Building world's largest elastic grid of real physical/virtual smart devices, device simulators, and desktop browsers with hundreds of thousands of device instances serving billions of daily requests.

[IoT, Device Engineering] - Building self-healing and fault tolerant IoT systems for managing a large fleet of a variety of smart devices situated remotely with automatic fault detection, recovery, predictive maintenance and automated device lifecycle management.

[Networking & Systems Engineering] - Solving complex networking problems including high speed connectivity, secure cross vpc communication, secure live video transmission

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3 years of programming with at least one modern language such as C , C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 4 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4 years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 4 years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 2 years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- 1 years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

About the Company:
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.