Sr. System Development Engineer, Amazon Sidewalk

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Systems Development Engineer for its Sidewalk project. The role requires expertise in system architecture and design for low-power devices, working collaboratively across teams to enhance connectivity solutions. Ideal candidates will have robust software development experience and a deep understanding of distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing and architecting systems.
• Familiarity with programming languages like Python, Java, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for system design and architecture across multiple domains.
• Lead design reviews and define system performance KPIs.
• Implement metrics for monitoring and improving network solutions.

Skills

Software Development

System Design

Architecture

Collaboration

Agile Methodology

Mentoring

Tools

Python

Java

C++

Job description

Sr. System Development Engineer, Amazon Sidewalk

As a Senior Systems Development Engineer, you will be responsible for the system design, architecture of Sidewalk across multiple domains (e.g., cloud, device, mobile). You will work closely and cross-functionally with several Amazon teams. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment. You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software & systems development life cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You are the engineer that other engineers can count on; you are technical, you attack every problem with enthusiasm.

Key job responsibilities
- Dive deep and take ownership for critical design issues involving algorithm and along with overall system performance.
- Participate in design reviews for complex systems, simulations, algorithms, and software development
- Define and optimize systems and software architecture and implementation
- Define and/or refine system requirements, participate in the development and delivery of Interoperability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation.
- Implement key metrics, set system performance KPIs, design debug tools and integrate with backend solutions to continuously monitor and improve on our network solutions

About the team
Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-term effort to greatly extend the working range of low-bandwidth, low-power, smart lights, sensors, and other low-cost devices customers install at the edge of their home network. We believe customers shouldn’t have to settle for connected devices that lose functionality past the front door. With Amazon Sidewalk, customers will be able to place smart devices anywhere on their property and know the devices will work, even in dead spots where Wi-Fi and Bluetooth don’t reach, helping bridge the connectivity gaps around our homes!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working with high-availability, distributed systems and services
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers

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