Software Development Engineer Alexa Communications

We are looking for a passionate Engineer to join Alexa Communications. We own and develop the communications platform that Alexa uses for all realtime communications features (calling dropin group calling.... You will love working with us especially if you enjoy solving complex problems to offer a huge positive impact for endusers and enjoy working on innovative GenAI products. Feature that we develop improves our customers lives (including the lives of our friends and families) and are regularly featured in the news. We are very proud of being part of Alexa Communications not only because our work helps connecting people but it also saved lives of many customers.

Key job responsibilities
As a key member of the Alexa Communications team you will be an innovator playing a direct role in shaping and building products that customers love with the power of Amazons technology at your disposal. You will be part of a strong team in a fastpaced startup like environment where agile development is embraced and innovation is encouraged. At Amazon every engineer has the opportunity to positively impact millions of customers and you will be called on to identify and realize these opportunities.

Responsibilities:
Work closely with product and design teams to Influence overall product strategy
Working with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
Use programming skills to develop highly innovative quality products
Building highly scalable reliable and available distributed services leveraging AWS Cloud
Contributing to operational excellence constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
Writing clean maintainable code and performing peer codereviews
Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software despite tight deadlines.
Find new ways to solve challenging problems every day

A day in the life
As a member of Alexa Communications Alexa Media Cloud Team you will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design architecture and implementation of innovative products used every day by people you know. You will solve complex problems and propose innovative ideas to build highly available scalable low latency services used daily by millions of customer. We operate in a DevOps environment where you will own all aspects for Software Development Life Cycle.

About the team
Alexa is the name of the Amazon cloudbased voice service that powers the Echo Echo Dot Echo Show and more. Just ask Alexa for information music news weather and more. And now you can send a message make a call play announcements or drop in on your closest friends & family via Alexa devices or the Alexa app!

Alexa Communications is reinventing the way customers connect with one another in a genuine and meaningful way. We are building products that make it easy even effortless for customers including the elderly to connect with loved ones. Customers keep telling us how happy they are to see their children connect with their grandparents regardless of where they are in the world. We have even had reports of people using Alexa to call someone during emergencies to ask for help when they couldnt reach their phones. We are literally saving lives and we have only just begun to scratch the surface of how Alexa can help people. If this excites you then you should be here. Come join us and lets make history together!

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

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with Communications/Media protocols and standards such as WebRTC SDP RTP and SIP

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.