Software Development Engineer Ii, Alexa AI Developer Tech

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · IN, MH, Pune · Software Development

Software Development Engineer II role focused on building AI-native experiences for Alexa+ using generative AI and LLMs, empowering third-party partners to create engaging customer experiences. The role involves developing software for millions of devices, focusing on architecture, quality, and engineering best practices.

What you'd actually do

  1. Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexa-enabled Devices using the latest AI technologies, including LLMs.
  2. Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and proposing larger projects.
  3. Understanding the business impact of your systems and showing good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
  4. Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and setting standards.
  5. When confronted with discordant views, finding the best way forward and influencing others to follow that path, building consensus.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice to have

  • 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

Other signals

  • generative AI
  • LLMs
  • AI-native experiences
  • partners