System Development Engineer II, Alexa Audio
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Job Summary
There is a universe of tens of millions of distinct audio content that is available across streaming services. Using your voice and timely proactive suggestions are the easiest ways to get to what you want. Alexa makes this magical for customers: ask any Alexa-enabled device to play your favorite song podcast book or a station and Alexa will find the right content for you and play it. We also support being able to control and manage playback across multiple devices and movement of media playback across them. It is still Day 1 for the audio experiences and were looking for a leader to help us make it even better.
On the Alexa Audio Team you will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience design architecture and implementation of state of the art products that will be used every day by people you know. No matter what the role were looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers demonstrate a high degree of product ownership and want to have fun while they make history.
In this role youll have independent technical ownership on new customer features and supporting architecture on a day to day and week to week basis. Youll 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. Youll work directly with Product Management and Design to refine the customer experience for Alexa Audio products. Youll 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.
Come join us as we build the Alexa Playback Execution And Reliability across Linked devices (PEARL) team for Audio using innovative technologies.
Key job responsibilities
System Development engineers troubleshoot debug evaluate and resolve computer-identified alarms make feature enhancements bug fixes systems management perform software deployments and migrations host management and automate routine operational tasks. The position requires a combination of strong troubleshooting technical and communication skills and includes a mix of on call and operational tasks and involves small to medium level software development work. Responsible to develop tools and automations to achieve human free operations. They use the right tool for the job and modify software in a way that leverages the overall system architecture. If you have a strong Application Support background are interested in rapid growth and have passion to develop tools at large scale this is the opportunity for you.
A day in the life
We collaborate across disciplines. You will have the opportunity to work closely with product managers UX designers and researchers and business intelligence engineers to innovate measure analyze and refine the experiences we deliver to millions of customers across the planet on a daily basis. Our roles are all well defined but we encourage individuals to cross boundaries and learn from each other.
- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- 3 years of systems engineering experience
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN BC Vancouver - 114800.00 - 191800.00 CAD annually
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