Amazon Software Development Engineer Alexa Audio Playback Experience 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

773969449

In this role you’ll have independent technical ownership on new customer features and supporting architecture on a day to day and week to week basis. You’ll learn new in-demand skills like building voice control interfaces and scalable API platforms interfacing with generative AI 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 entertainment 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
A person in this role is expected to:
1. Design, implement, and deliver software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces of Alexa Audio working with partners such as product managers, technical program managers, and senior/principal engineers to deliver on the business goals related to Playback Experience. Create designs to deliver personalized recommended content to users based on their recognized voice or to bring them their favorite radio stations and increasing the play queue rate, listening minutes while staying neutral on latency and friction.3. Champion best practices for software engineering and operational excellence. This role is responsible for implementing the operational and engineering excellence roadmap across core audio services set by the leads. SDEs work to proactively address peak readiness, hardware efficiency, customer tickets, Shepherd risks, SAS risks, policy engine risks, scaling, throttling and improve availability & resiliency for Alexa Audio Services.
4. Influence technical architecture for long term architectural changes in delivery of key program features such as Personal Account Linking and Books Skills Kit by defining experience providers.
5. Provide valuable design feedback around latency considerations, two-way door decisions and valuable coding feedback around coding standards, quality, versioning to both internal and external away teams, guide them on best practices for developing within APEX owned services and push back on proposals which do not adhere to our high quality standards.7. Leadership principles that are most important for this role are ownership, deliver results, deep dive, bias for action, hire & develop the best, and earns trust.A day in the life

- 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