Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connected Devices

Do you want to shape the future of how Alexa enabled devices connect with Alexa Cloud Do you want to be part of a team that builds services used by millions of customers If you said yes to any or all of those come join the Alexa Connected Devices!

We are looking for a passionate engineer to work on the development of Tier-1 services for Alexa Cloud that enable connectivity between Alexa enabled devices (Echo Smart Home etc.) and Alexa.

Key job responsibilities
- Building software to deliver a low latency low cost highly reliable and high scalable connectivity between Alexa enabled devices and Alexa Cloud
- Drive and lead software design development standards team processes and code reviews.
- Optimize software libraries for low latency CPU and memory footprint.
- Deliver high-quality software through working in a dynamic team-focused Agile/Scrum environment
- Contributing to the professional development of colleagues improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

About the team
The mission of the Alexa Connectivity teams is to deliver a low latency low cost highly reliable and high scalable connectivity between Alexa enabled devices and Alexa Cloud. The changes we make improves the speed and reliability experienced by end customers when interacting with Alexa devices and simplifies experience for developers and rest of Alexa by abstracting the connection management from them. The team handles tens of billions of transactions per day. This is a highly visible role to get in the inception phase build new features and operate a tier-1 Cloud Service. The ideal candidate is excited about the incredible opportunity that Alexa and Cloud represent and is passionate about delivering high-quality services in a hyper-growth environment.

- 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
- Experience developing deploying and managing AI products at scale
- System design with AI components and able to evaluate latency cost reliability and accuracy.
- Agentic ai development
- AI-Augmented Development: Using tools like Kiro effectively for design coding testing and debugging.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually