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, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo and Amazon Show. The Amazon Devices group delivers delightfully unique Amazon experiences, giving customers instant access to everything, digital or physical.

Do you want to build frameworks for the next generation of apps running on Amazon Devices? Are you passionate about building reusable code and tools for development? How about having the code you write making a big impact to our smart home customers by ensuring unique Amazon technologies are easily available to app developers? Do you want to work in a horizontal consumer device focused team developing for a wide range of products? If so, join us to build tools and app frameworks in Device OS.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Common Software team, you will be part of a team that owns critical Android framework components, services, tools, and application development frameworks - working on projects that push the boundaries of customer-device interaction.

Key job responsibilities
- Engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary staff to conceive and design innovative consumer product experiences.
- Participate in designing, prototyping, and building solutions to hard problems in the Android and Amazon ecosystem.
- Work closely with Amazon device software teams, product management teams, external partner developers, internal Amazon application developers, and Amazon service teams to drive development from the concept stage to the launch stage.

A day in the life
If you join our team, you will get to build new products and features from the ground up. You will define and build features and tools used by thousands of developers for building for millions of customers. We work across multiple internal teams as well as product to define what we are building and make it a reality. SDEs on this team are actively writing code, as well as working on designs and mentoring others. As the Device OS org we get to work horizontally across many exciting new device types.

About the team
This team’s primary focus is to enable developers to swiftly create delightful, performant, and interactive devices for our smart home ecosystem. We are responsible for working closely with developers and end customers to build the frameworks and tools that they need to be highly productive. As a part of the Device OS organization, you’ll get to interact and work with multiple teams to develop an ecosystem end to end from product conception to ultimately shipping on the vast number of Amazon devices in the field.