Alexa Data Services Sr. SDE, Alexa Data Services team

Do you want to help make Alexa smarter for our users How about developing massive scale Datalake that can help improving peoples day-to-day life such as grocery ordering music playing smart home control etc At Alexas Data Services team we build services that enable secure fast and massive machine learning systems helping to make Alexa the worlds fastest developing and most engaging voice assistant. Alexa Data services ingest data at the exabyte scale enable ML components to discover data and create streaming data preparation pipelines for continuous training. Data is the fuel to Alexas AI future Alexa Data Services team owns and builds systems that can make this happen at scale as well as treat customers privacy seriously. We have micro services scaling to 100Ks of TPS stringent SLAs at 10s of millisecond latency and 99.9999% availability rate.

Were an organization that takes career growth seriously. Our managers and leadership care about your personal goals. We value open communication whether its in regards to what you need to accomplish for your career goals or what we as an organization can improve to better support our teammates and provide the best possible work environment. We foster collaborative working environment build good relationships with each other and encourage knowledge sharing throughout our organization. We help team members when they feel stuck and we want to make sure everyone feels included.


What Youll Do

* Design and build high-performance services handling 100000 transactions per second
* Develop secure scalable data ingestion systems operating at exabyte scale
* Create streaming data preparation pipelines supporting continuous ML training
* Maintain services with strict SLAs (10ms latency 99.9999% availability)
* Collaborate with ML scientists to optimize data infrastructure

Our Technology Stack

* Programming Languages: Java Python
* Cloud Platform: AWS
* Focus Areas: Data Lakes Microservices Machine Learning Infrastructure

What We Offer

* Career Growth: Dedicated leadership support for your professional development
* Collaborative Culture: Open communication and knowledge sharing environment
* Learning Opportunities: Exposure to cutting-edge ML and AI technologies
* Meaningful Impact: Build systems that improve millions of users daily lives

What We Value

* Customer Obsession: Passionate focus on user needs
* Technical Excellence: Building robust scalable solutions
* Data Privacy: Commitment to protecting customer information
* Team Collaboration: Supporting and learning from colleagues

Requirements

* Strong software development experience in Java and/or Python
* Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms
* Understanding of data processing and storage systems
* Excellent problem-solving and communication skills



- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.