Support Engineer, Device OS

Inventive R&D company designing high-profile consumer electronics as Amazon.com subsidiary, creating Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo and Show devices.
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Entry-Level Software Engineer
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5,000+ Employees
2+ years of experience
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Description For Support Engineer, Device OS

Amazon Lab126, an innovative R&D subsidiary of Amazon.com, is seeking a Support Engineer for their Core Device OS team. Founded in 2004, Lab126 has created groundbreaking consumer electronics including the Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Amazon Show.

As a Support Engineer, you'll be integral to maintaining and improving critical OS components, pipelines, services, tools, and application development frameworks. This role combines hands-on technical support with development work, requiring strong problem-solving abilities and coding skills primarily in C++ and Python.

Your responsibilities will span from frontline support handling Jiras and operational issues to developing automation tools and maintaining production services. You'll work closely with remote development teams in Sunnyvale, contributing to knowledge base creation and skill set development.

The ideal candidate brings 2+ years of software development or technical support experience, with a strong foundation in Unix systems and modern programming languages. You'll need to demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities and the capacity to understand and modify complex application code.

This position offers the opportunity to work on technology that impacts millions of customers through Amazon's device ecosystem. You'll be part of a team that pushes the boundaries of customer-device interaction, contributing to next-generation consumer electronics that define how people interact with technology in their daily lives.

Join us in creating delightfully unique Amazon experiences that give customers instant access to everything digital and physical. This role provides an excellent opportunity to grow your technical skills while working on high-impact consumer products at global scale.

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Responsibilities For Support Engineer, Device OS

  • Provide first level support for handling Jiras, tickets, operational issues from production services
  • Provide engineering support including troubleshooting and debugging across multiple product lines
  • Work on maintenance driven coding projects in C++ and Python
  • Read and understand complex application code and make code fixes
  • Develop tools and automate manual operational tasks
  • Build monitoring metrics dashboard and report system health
  • Work with remote development teams for support issues and knowledge base creation

Requirements For Support Engineer, Device OS

Python
Linux
  • 2+ years of software development or technical support experience
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
  • Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems
  • Experience in Unix
  • Experience scripting in modern program languages

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