Alexa+ is Amazon's next-generation AI-powered personal assistant, built on large language models to deliver natural, conversational, and context-aware experiences for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. We are building new services and experiences for Alexa+ customers from the ground up, and we're looking for experienced, generative AI-savvy Software Development Engineers to join us.
In this role, you will design, build, and operate Tier-1 cloud services that enable real-time experiences with hundreds of millions of devices and customers. You'll partner with engineers across Alexa+ to tackle complex technical challenges, drive innovation, and deliver experiences that redefine what a personal assistant can do.
Why You'll Love It Here
-Unprecedented technical challenges: You'll work on problems at a scale and complexity few teams encounter. We don't just build AI products; we use generative AI extensively in our own engineering practices, keeping you at the forefront of the field. -Motivated, collaborative team: Join a team of passionate engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and celebrate wins together. -Greenfield opportunity: We're building from the ground up, giving you the chance to shape architecture, tooling, and culture from day one. -World-changing impact: Your work will directly shape how hundreds of millions of customers interact with their personal assistant every day.
Key job responsibilities -Design and implement highly available, scalable cloud services in Rust and Java -Build and operate Tier-1 services at massive scale -Solve novel and complex distributed systems challenges — from low-latency communication to fault-tolerant architectures -Leverage generative AI extensively in your day-to-day development workflow to accelerate delivery and improve code quality -Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across Alexa+ to define technical direction and deliver customer-facing features -Contribute to a culture of operational excellence, including on-call support, monitoring, and continuous improvement
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.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ 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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's 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.
- AI-Augmented Development: Using tools like Kiro, Claude Code 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually