Job Description

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ 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
• Bachelor\'s degree and/or Master\'s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

The Device Analytics team supports the entirety of Amazon\xe2\x80\x99s device portfolio and is responsible for the comprehensive backend web services and mobile & IoT SDKs. The team owns a fleet of metrics, crash reporting and log services that provide insight into the current and future state of Amazon\xe2\x80\x99s devices. Engineers employ the full breadth of their software development toolbox to work across a broad set of technologies including web services, mobile app development and embedded/IoT platforms.

The Role:
As a SDE on the team, you will be responsible for leading the architecture, design, development and launch of some of the core product features. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these product features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
The ideal candidate is clearly passionate about new opportunities and has a demonstrated track record of success in delivering new features and products. A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, and engineering best practices.
• Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against competing systems in the industry.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over the core platform teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your knowledge and experience.

About the team
This team\'s primary focus is to build troubleshooting solutions for all Amazon devices and applications. We work closely with all the device and application teams in Amazon to build tools and services which can help identify, analyze, root cause and fix the issues that our end customers face while using our devices or applications.