The Amazon Luna team is leveraging the power of the cloud to enable customers to experience the rich and immersive world of gaming on all of their existing devices.
Luna represents an exciting and truly new product and business, with a high degree of innovation, and an opportunity to reach a large volume of passionate customers.
As a Software Development Engineer working on the developer experience for Luna, you will get to combine your passion for gaming, AWS, and building great developer experiences.
The team you will be joining is responsible for a wide variety of services, websites, and tools that leverage the latest technologies and languages including: ECS, Fargate, Lambda, CDK, Docker, React, Kotlin, TypeScript, C++, and more.
The ideal candidate will have a good mix of distributed systems in AWS, web services design, and experience building client-side tools.
You should also be customer-centric and have a passion to invent and simplify for our customers.
As a Software Development Engineer, you will have help influence our overall strategy by refining these product features, drive the system architecture, and contribute to best practices that enable a quality product.
To be successful, you need to be flexible and entrepreneurial, comfortable operating with ambiguity, data-driven, and able to develop prototypes quickly.
If you have a flair for innovation and passion for solving challenging problems, we need you!
About the team
Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming service that makes it easy for anyone to play high-quality games on the devices they already own—including Fire TV and tablet devices, smartphones, tablets, web browsers, select smart televisions from LG and Samsung, and more--with no need to purchase new gaming consoles or equipment.
Luna brings more than 50 games to Prime members at no additional cost, including GameNight, an evolving collection of more than 25 approachable, local multiplayer games designed to bring friends and family together in the living room.
To play GameNight titles, simply scan a QR code on your TV and your smartphone becomes your controller.
With simple and responsive touchscreen inputs and support for multiple local players, GameNight offers and easy and approachable way to play whether you’re an experienced gamer of a casual fan.