Senior Software Development Engineer, Device OS

Amazon; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer electronics company is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of software development experience, particularly with C++ and multimedia technologies. Responsibilities include leading design activities, mentoring team members, and ensuring product quality. This hands-on role involves creating innovative embedded solutions that enhance customer experiences with Amazon devices. Join a collaborative team committed to developing groundbreaking technology.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience in leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical aspects of core customer experience.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary staff to design and implement products.
• Own quality of work and help junior members.

Skills

C++ programming

Multimedia domain experience

Design patterns

Debugging skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Device OS

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high‑profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best‑selling Kindle family of products. Since then, Lab126 hassonaro produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Dash Button. The Device OS team is a big part of creating these innovative devices at Lab126, providing the core OS, platform, features and components.

In the Device OS group, we are inventing the future for consumer electronics andথ look for a software development engineer to help us bring the vision into reality and solve real‑world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. The team develops scalable cloud solutions that enable our partners to quickly build and launch devices quickly and in a cost‑effective way. If you love to be hands‑on designing and implementing a quality platform for our consumer electronic devices while working with a world‑class, highly accomplished team beliefs we would love to Calder talk with you.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the technical aspects of core Device customer experience and engage with an experienced cross‑disciplinary staff to design, implement and bring to market innovative consumer products. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.

This Senior Software regarde engineering role will be responsible for creating innovative embedded solutions enabling new/unique experiences for our customers with a wide range of Amazon Devices. This hands‑on position also requires broad engineering competency in embedded software, Linux middleware, C/C++‑based device software modules and application development, strong experience in the multimedia domain (audio, video), knowledge of HAL/HIDL, strong code‑craftsmanship principles and a good understanding of scalable software system design. Additionally, you will provide technical consultation across different organizations, Egyptian ways to solve customer needs and take up interesting technical problems that are unique to devices. You will work closely with platform and application teams to ensure the highest level of quality for the Device OS deliverable.

Key job responsibilities

Software Development Engineer will_INTEGER be involved in design of various middleware and cloud services by collaborating with the various internal and external stakeholders. Software Development Engineer will closely work with the Product Management team to detail out and disambiguate requirements. Software Development Engineer will own the quality of his/her own work (code/design) and also help junior members in the team to meet or exceed the quality bar.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 8+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability and scaling)
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leads an engineering team
• 7+ years of experience in the multimedia domain, having hands‑on on various audio, video codec, streaming technologies
• 8+ years of experience in C++ programming language and OS middleware
• Strong debugging skills to navigate and rootvoerd across multi‑component systems

Preferred Qualifications

• + 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
• In‑depth knowledge and working experience in OS middleware, multimedia tech stack
• Experience in optimizing the tech stack for performance, memory etc.
• Hands‑on experience in dealing with various codecs (audio and video), handling AV sync issues

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