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🌎 Want to be part of something bigger? Amazon Project Kuiper is bringing internet connectivity to underserved communities worldwide, and we need…
🌎 Want to be part of something bigger? Amazon Project Kuiper is bringing internet connectivity to underserved communities worldwide, and we need…
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You landed an Amazon interview; now what? Here’s the truth: very few people can “wing it” in the Amazon loop interviews. I can’t tell you how many…
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Software Development Engineer II - Kuiper Customer eCommerce Service (CES)
Amazon's Kuiper Systems is seeking experienced Software Development Engineers II to join our growing CES team. In this role, you will play a critical part in building and managing globally available systems that enable Kuiper customers' end-to-end eCommerce lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop highly scalable, distributed systems to power Kuiper's customer-facing eCommerce capabilities
Work across the full stack, including frontend web/mobile development (React…Amazon's Kuiper Systems is seeking experienced Software Development Engineers II to join our growing CES team. In this role, you will play a critical part in building and managing globally available systems that enable Kuiper customers' end-to-end eCommerce lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop highly scalable, distributed systems to power Kuiper's customer-facing eCommerce capabilities
Work across the full stack, including frontend web/mobile development (React, JavaScript, iOS/Android) and backend services (Java, C#, C)
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, UX, and other Engineering groups
Own technical architecture and implementation for key eCommerce features like product discovery, ordering, billing, returns, and API/SDK integrations
Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure reliable 24/7 service for our customers
Qualifications:
5+ years of professional software development experience
Expertise in building highly scalable, cloud-based distributed systems on platforms like AWS
Strong proficiency in modern web technologies (React, JavaScript, CSS) and at least one backend language (Java, C#, C)
Experience with system design for fault-tolerance, high-availability, and performance at scale
Familiarity with Agile software development methodologies and best practices
Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
If you are passionate about building innovative eCommerce experiences and scalable cloud infrastructure, we encourage you to apply! This is an exciting opportunity to make a direct impact on Kuiper's customer-facing platforms. -
Hardware Development Engineer II, Blink/Ring ASIC Team
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DESCRIPTION
Join the team which delivers highly differentiated silicon into Blink and Ring battery powered devices. Our validation team works on state-of-the art SoCs in a vertically integrated team environment to deliver products our customers love. The team works backwards from customer requirements to build super-low power, energy efficient designs that include the latest in AI, video processing, low power communications and CMOS fabrication technology.
Because we are vertically…DESCRIPTION
Join the team which delivers highly differentiated silicon into Blink and Ring battery powered devices. Our validation team works on state-of-the art SoCs in a vertically integrated team environment to deliver products our customers love. The team works backwards from customer requirements to build super-low power, energy efficient designs that include the latest in AI, video processing, low power communications and CMOS fabrication technology.
Because we are vertically integrated we directly get to see products built and ship based on our silicon.
We work directly with product teams to increase the velocity of features and time to ship products.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of demonstrable experience as a computer hardware engineer.
- Strong knowledge of hardware design principles, testing tools, equipment, and techniques (mainly PCB designing).
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail and precision.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proficiency in programming languages, like C/C++ and/or Verilog/VHDL.
- Knowledge of hardware regulatory requirements, such as FCC and CE.
- Strong Electrical Engineering fundamentals
- Familiarity with corner lot characterization
- Lab debug experience and/or FPGA debug
- Strong written and verbal skills -
Senior Software Engineer, Sidewalk
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The team works on embedded using programming languages like C, C++ and Wireless communication protocols like BLE and custom protocols in Sub-Ghz.
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…The team works on embedded using programming languages like C, C++ and Wireless communication protocols like BLE and custom protocols in Sub-Ghz.
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 -
Senior Systems Dev Engineer, Ring
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As Senior Systems Development Engineer, you will be responsible for defining, building and supporting the system design, architecture, and software for Ring IoT products. As a member of our team, you will be interacting closely with the business and cross-functional engineering teams across different organizations to gather engineering requirements, design and implement new features.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#…As Senior Systems Development Engineer, you will be responsible for defining, building and supporting the system design, architecture, and software for Ring IoT products. As a member of our team, you will be interacting closely with the business and cross-functional engineering teams across different organizations to gather engineering requirements, design and implement new features.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 4+ years of systems development in an IT or data center environment experience
- 4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience
- 2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl
- Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of development/programming/scripting language (Python/Java/Bash/Perl) experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers
- Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders -
Senior Technical Program Manager, Ring Eng, Ring
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DESCRIPTION
Ring is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Senior Technical Program Manager with excellent technical program management skills and a background in software engineering to join Ring’s Cloud Engineering Team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of technical program…DESCRIPTION
Ring is seeking an experienced, self-motivated Senior Technical Program Manager with excellent technical program management skills and a background in software engineering to join Ring’s Cloud Engineering Team.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and and cloud technologies/development
- Collaborate with business, engineering and other internal teams to solve business needs
- Own stakeholder relations, track and manage their progress, and respond to their requests
- Break down and convert business needs into actionable and trackable plans for development teams
- Work with remote and multi-site teams to deliver related system components
- Communicate regularly with senior management on status, risks, and change control
- Be expected to dive deep into the technical details of a program
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field -
Software Engineer II, Cloud, Ring
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of experience developing software in Java or Go
- 3+ years developing in an OO language
- Experience designing and developing large-scale, distributed software…BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of experience developing software in Java or Go
- 3+ years developing in an OO language
- Experience designing and developing large-scale, distributed software applications, tools, systems and services
- Proven experience with Web architectures and services (HTTP, REST, sockets, JSON, multi-threading, etc.) including architecture and design
- Extensive experience with Agile and various process implementations
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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
- Understanding and experience with professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with code versioning tools such as Git
- Experience with SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Aurora
- Experience with continuous integration, automated unit testing and integration testing
- Experience with application monitoring tools (Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, etc.)
- Experience with Spring, Hibernate and other Java frameworks
- Familiarity with AWS and have built apps leveraging its offerings (S3, EC2, Cloud Formations, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.)
- Experience with C++
- Experience with Docker
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through actual launch of the project
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements -
Sr. Software Development Engineer - (Blink), Blink Cloud Team
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This role will require the following skills/experiences:
- IoT device connectivity, persistent connections
- Video encoding/streaming/transcoding (WebRTC, H.264, etc)
- Large scale production level Ruby experience
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…This role will require the following skills/experiences:
- IoT device connectivity, persistent connections
- Video encoding/streaming/transcoding (WebRTC, H.264, etc)
- Large scale production level Ruby experience
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 -
System Engineer, Blink
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration, but a working knowledge of Windows Systems will be useful
- Experience with supporting or engineering Cisco/Juniper networks
- Experience with physical infrastructure installations including hardware integration, racking, and cabling
- Design, build and own major parts of the hardware test infrastructure (configuration and data management systems, cloud and desktop services and applications, web UIs…BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience with Linux systems administration, but a working knowledge of Windows Systems will be useful
- Experience with supporting or engineering Cisco/Juniper networks
- Experience with physical infrastructure installations including hardware integration, racking, and cabling
- Design, build and own major parts of the hardware test infrastructure (configuration and data management systems, cloud and desktop services and applications, web UIs, analytics tools and more)
- Ability to engineer solutions and provide support in a heterogeneous UNIX/Linux/Windows environment
- Clear, professional technical writing and communication skills
- Some travel and off-hours work is required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience deploying services to Amazon's Cloud (Amazon Web Services)
- Flexibility, ability to think on your feet, and strong problem solving skills
- Experience administering or supporting Aruba wireless network equipment
- Demonstrated track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment
- Hands on experience with HyperV, switching, routing, and troubleshooting of enterprise scale network components
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
Professional working proficiency
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