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Amazon Arcus is seeking a Software Development Engineer to lead the architecture, design and launch of core remote configuration features for devices and apps. You will influence product features, drive system architecture, and promote engineering excellence in a fast-growing environment.
You will collaborate across teams to build scalable distributed systems, mentor engineers, and define platform direction.
Description
Amazon Device Remote Configuration Team exist to ensure app developers have delightful configuration management experience using the product by enabling them to update content, customize behavior, or turn on features in their apps/devices without waiting on an app store approval process through remote configuration.
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 independently 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.
About the team
Amazon Remote Configuration team (aka Arcus) owns Amazon's remote configuration management service that enables applications and devices to retrieve, cache, and synchronize configuration data efficiently at scale. As a critical infrastructure service, Arcus powers configuration management for thousands of applications across Amazon's ecosystem, from mobile devices to backend services, ensuring consistent and reliable configuration delivery across diverse platforms and environments.
A day in the life
- Communicates with other business teams in E-Reader/Tablet/FireTV/Alexa to name a few.
- Collects the business requirements,
- Helps describe software product features,
- Builds technical designs and architecture.
- Writes code with at most care for customer's data security and customer's privacy.
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