Key job responsibilities
Architect and deliver complex software systems that align with Amazon's engineering standards and business objectives.
Drive technical decisions and design reviews that impact multiple services or teams within the organization.
Lead development of critical features while mentoring junior engineers in technical best practices and engineering principles.
Establish and maintain robust monitoring, metrics, and operational excellence practices for high-availability systems.
Define and enforce code quality standards, testing strategies, and documentation requirements across projects.
Proactively identify and resolve complex technical challenges while implementing preventive measures.
Participate in building high-performing teams through technical interviews and making data-driven hiring recommendations.
A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing a technical design document from a teammate, providing feedback that strengthens the approach before a broader design review. Later, you dive into code, perhaps refactoring a critical component to improve extensibility or prototyping an interface that defines boundaries between services. After lunch, you join a cross-team discussion to resolve a dependency conflict, building consensus on a path that balances both teams' needs. You wrap up by pairing with a junior engineer on a tricky debugging session, turning it into a coaching moment.
About the team
We are building teams with Amazon DNA in Guadalajara, Mexico: two-pizza teams who are the single-threaded owners of their end-to-end experience. You will be the only team responsible for defining all architectural decisions, implementation, testing, and operational excellence for Amazon Device Messaging. We are looking for customer-obsessed engineers who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of technical ownership, and want to make history. It is still Day 1 in the Devices business, and we are seeking a creative problem-solver with exceptional judgment and the ability to deliver results under ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines.
8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
8+ 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
8+ 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
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