Software Development Engineer Alexa Alexa Skills Kit

Alexa is our nextgeneration AIpowered digital assistant. Alexa is designed to be more conversational intelligent and personalized than previous versions helping you get things done with ease. Whether its entertainment learning organization summarization or openended conversation Alexa can assist. She can also manage and protect your smart home make reservations discover new content and help you shop online. At the core of Alexas enhanced capabilities is a powerful large language model (LLM) architecture. Alexa is able to orchestrate across tens of thousands of services and devices a firstofitskind achievement. This is enabled by experts groups of systems capabilities APIs and instructions that allow Alexa to accomplish specific customer tasks.

Through these experts Alexa can seamlessly control smart home devices make reservations explore entertainment content order groceries and meals set reminders and much more. The Alexa Skill Build Platform teams charter is to enable internal and external partners to build exceptional Alexa experiences by managing the lifecycle of these experts.


Key job responsibilities

* Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexaenabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including Large Language Models

* Taking a longterm view of architecture proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.

* Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical tradeoffs.

* Driving engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence Security Quality etc. and set standards.

* When confronted with discordant views you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path building consensus.

* You contribute to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

A day in the life
A typical day will start with a morning huddle to catch up on what you and your team worked on the previous day. This is usually followed by some whiteboard design discussions on the problems the team is working on with afternoon mostly spent on project design and implementation work with a heavy dose of code reviews from and for your team along the way. We are a fun close knit team where everyone is ready to roll their sleeves and help each other out push boundaries and have fun doing it!

About the team
Alexa Skills Kit or ASK is an organization within Alexa on a mission to empower skill builders to create delightful and engaging experiences by making Alexa more natural accurate conversational and personalized. Skills are like apps for Alexa and provide a new channel for your content and services. Skills let customers use their voices to perform everyday tasks like checking the news listening to music playing a game and more. Organizations and individuals can publish skills in the Alexa Skills Store to reach and delight customers on hundreds of millions of Alexa devices.

Key job responsibilities
Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexaenabled Devices using latest fast moving technologies including LLM
Taking a longterm view of architecture proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
Understanding the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical tradeoffs.
Driving engineering best practices (e.g. Operational Excellence Security Quality etc. and set standards.
When confronted with discordant views you are able to find the best way forward and influence others to follow that path building consensus.
You contribute to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices

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

3 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

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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.