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Description

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, massively scalable services technology in a fast-paced team environment? Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle?

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate & build things for the benefit of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – it is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers play an instrumental role in utilizing cutting edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Engineer on the Kindle Measurements & Insights team, you will take on exciting and challenging projects that help drive data-driven decisions across the organization. You will work with other engineers in your team, business leaders, and other talented engineering teams while you design, architect, and implement for Kindle Reader iOS, Android, FireOS app and E-Reader. You will have lots of opportunities to think big and drive architecture decisions across OS, applications, and services to deliver real world customer impacts. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented senior software engineer who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. Someone who has expertise working with C++, Java/Kotlin based systems and has the ability to quickly learn and contribute in other programming languages as needed.

A day in the life

Senior Engineers in the team spend their time focusing on interesting problems like detecting performance optimization opportunities, improving the product offerings, managing large-scale data pipelines, re-architecting our systems using AWS technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis etc., as well as internal data lake technologies. Senior Engineers directly impact the direction of the team’s architecture, and get to work closely with Senior and Principal engineers. The services we own process millions of messages per second. We own and build services with security and low latency at its core.

About the team

Kindle Measurement & Insights team provides fast and reliable metric solution to teams across Amazon. We obsessed on our customers and ensure our products are easy to integrate, reliable, fast, and provide the insights needed for them to make critical business decisions.

You'll work alongside peers who get along well, have fun together, and genuinely care about each other's professional growth.

If you're inspired to develop and grow our products that run on millions of devices/apps; and provide critical business insights to drive business growth, we'd love for you to join us.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

• Familiarity with AWS technologies like EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, S3 etc.

• Experience programming in C++, Java/Kotlin, Swift

• Ability to effectively communicate with users, technical teams, and leadership to gather requirements, describe features and designs, and shape product strategy

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 $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.