Software Development Engineer, Alexa Enterprise

Are you excited about building at the intersection of enterprise AI and customer experience Are you passionate about sitting at the intersection of engineering and real customer problems Do you want your engineering work shaped by real customer problems youve seen firsthand The Alexa Enterprise team is looking for a Software / Product Engineer who builds great software thrives in a startup-style environment and is energized when that software is tested against the messy reality of enterprise deployments.

In this role youll design and ship platform features end-to-end while working closely with enterprise customers to understand how they integrate AI capabilities with their existing infrastructure. Youll build proof-of-concepts in customer environments help customers optimize their integration architecture and turn those learnings into reusable platform capabilities that scale across verticals. Your code ships to production. Your design decisions are informed by real-world constraints. The solutions you build for one customer become the features every customer uses. We believe this is how engineering evolves and were already seeing it happen here.

Were a small fast-moving team building AI-powered solutions at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services. Our customers span healthcare energy retail and insurance and theyre deploying in environments where the integration challenges are real and the feedback loops are immediate.


Key job responsibilities
- Work as a full-stack software/product engineer designing and building end-to-end platform features across backend services frontend experiences and AWS infrastructure
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand integration challenges build proof-of-concepts and validate platform capabilities in their environments
- Turn patterns from customer engagements into reusable platform features solutions inspired by one customers needs built to serve many
- Own your services from design through production: write clean maintainable code drive engineering best practices through code reviews and operate what you ship
- Write design documents lead technical reviews and make architectural trade-offs with real-world constraints
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects product managers and partner engineering teams to scope work define requirements and shape the platform roadmap
- Mentor teammates participate in hiring and improve team development and operational processes
- Troubleshoot production issues contribute to on-call rotations and continuously improve system reliability


A day in the life
As an SDE on the Alexa Enterprise team youll split your time between building platform software and engaging directly with customers deploying it. On any given day you might be implementing a new integration abstraction informed by a customers auth challenge whiteboarding architecture with a customers engineering team reviewing a teammates design doc or shipping a feature that unblocks the next pilot deployment. Youll collaborate closely with Solutions Architects and product managers ship frequently and see your work validated in customer environments quickly. Youll also contribute to operational health and team processes this is a small team where engineers own outcomes end-to-end.

Some travel may be required for on-site customer workshops and integration sessions.


About the team
The Alexa Enterprise team builds AI-powered solutions for businesses. We work with enterprise customers across healthcare energy retail and insurance to deploy solutions that transform operations. Our team operates at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services partnering closely with AWS sales product and specialist teams to deliver customer outcomes. Engineers on this team have real ownership from customer discovery through production and the opportunity to shape a platform in its early stages.

- 4 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- 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
- Experience with real-time streaming audio or IoT systems

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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually