Amazon System Development Engineer Alexa Audio Playback Experience 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

2020640

In this role you’ll have independent technical ownership on new customer features and supporting Native AWS architecture on a day to day and week to week basis. You’ll learn new in-demand skills like Gen AI and Large Language Models, building voice control interfaces and scalable API platforms that will be highly valuable as you grow your career at Amazon and beyond. You’ll work directly with Product Management and Design to refine the customer experience for Alexa featured products. You’ll join a unique team in the Alexa organization with our own culture – we move fast to deliver new great features for customers and have a ton of fun doing it.
Key job responsibilities
- System Development engineers create new services, troubleshoot, debug, evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms, make feature enhancements, bug fixes, systems management, perform software deployments and migrations, host management and automate routine operational tasks.
- The position requires a combination of strong troubleshooting, technical and communication skills and includes a mix of on call and operational tasks and involves small to medium level software development work.
- Responsible to develop tools and automations to achieve human free operations. They use the right tool for the job, and modify software in a way that leverages the overall system architecture.
A day in the life

- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Bachelor's degree