Senior Software Dev Engineer , Device Engagament Metrics

Job summary

DESCRIPTION Application deadline: Aug 8, 2026 We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Development Engineer to drive our device software into the next generation. We need someone who can support our current product line while driving innovation for Devices software features.

Qualifications

• Our mission is to provide trusted observability, customer intelligence, and decision support that helps teams build better customer experiences, accelerate product decisions, and grow the Amazon Devices ecosystem.
• into technical designs with clear milestones
• Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs through written narratives and design documents
• Build stakeholder trust through consistent, high-quality delivery
• A day in the life
• You will be the technical leader responsible for service design, development, and operations.
• You will brainstorm new ideas and work on forward looking architectures and design with Principal Engineers and other Senior Software Engineers.
• You will architect, analyse, design, develop, test, and deploy software features and fix defects.
• You will participate and lead in sprint planning and daily scrum, break down technical work, identify technical blockers, and navigate solutions.
• You will mentor team members.
• You will partner with your managers, other technical leaders across the org to achieve a desired technical consensus.
• You will author docs to communicate vision, proposals and designs.

Responsibilities

• To excel in this role, you'll need to be a seasoned engineer with deep technical expertise in building and shipping high-quality software.
• You'll be making crucial technical decisions on architecture, design, implementation, and trade-offs, balancing complexity, performance, and delivery timelines.
• In this position, you'll collaborate with local and worldwide teams to shape the future of Amazon's device observability ecosystem.
• Technical Strategy & Execution **
• Own the technical roadmap for device observability infrastructure, provisioning, and lifecycle features across Amazon's devices portfolio
• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant provisioning workflows and telemetry pipelines supporting the devices fleet at scale
• Partner with teams across Fire TV, Tablet, eReaders, Alexa, Ring, and Blink on firmware strategy and instrumentation architecture for collecting device signals
• Lead incident response, reduce provisioning failures, and improve time-to-production metrics
• Define and monitor KPIs driving consistency and reliability across a multi-device portfolio
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Mentorship**
• Partner with Principal Engineers, Senior SDEs, and SDMs to define technical standards and best practices
• Influence technical direction aligned with broader Devices organization objectives

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