Amazon Software Development Engineer Alexa Smart Home 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

617878603

Customers love using Alexa to interact with their homes through natural commands and intuitive interfaces. Ambient Experience and Automations in Smart Home is reinventing the way Alexa proactively takes on the tasks of the home through automations. Like a trusted companion, Alexa knows how to tailor the environment for you and predicts what you need next. With the ability to communicate conversationally and learn from signals in the home, Alexa can understand your preferences so that Alexa can take on tasks in the future and only needs to alert you when something looks off. We are gearing up to launch new products, devices, and features that just may change how people view what Alexa means in their life.What you will do here: You will be a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects. You will ensure quality of architecture and design of systems. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions. Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members. You are a person that has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. You exert technical influence on the core platform teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your knowledge and experience.What you will get from us: A great team to work with and the chance to build top tier devices and experiences at a proven top tier company. You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning. You will build software that will materially improve people’s lives.Key job responsibilities- Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
- Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
- Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.A day in the life
You will collaborate with other SDEs to build new architectures for Smart Home devices, and leverage the latest AWS technologies to build services to support them. You will functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions. You are a person that has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. You will be empowered to build out the future of smart home devices.
Seattle, WA, USA

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ 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