Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Silk

Interested in working on software used by millions of customers every day? Intrigued by the opportunity to contribute to one of the largest open source projects in the world? The Amazon Silk browser extends Chromium, and our team is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer. This role works within the team that owns the core browsing experience for Silk, owning our charter for delivering an up to date, secure, and performant browsing experience. This is accomplished by incorporating Chromium updates within Silk, and by innovating on the processes and technologies required to do so. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a passion for delivering a high quality customer facing experience while also working to improve our ability to do so through forward looking improvements to system/process efficiency, and automation. In our highly collaborative environment, you will work closely with senior leadership, product management, and other engineering teams to ensure we build and operate client software that efficiently supports Amazons massive scale and our vision for how Silks future evolution.

We operate like a startup in a big company - our software development managers and engineers work closely with product management and user experience designers to build best-in-class services and apps. Our dev managers are owners who identify, define, and build solutions that delight millions of customers every day. We are building our organization based on smart people, diversity of perspective and experience, and looking for individuals with a can-do attitude who love to tackle hard problems. - 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