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Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

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Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
7+ years of experience
AI · Consumer · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

The Alexa Smart Home team at Amazon is at the forefront of revolutionizing home automation technology. As the Smart Home market transitions from early adopters to mass adoption, this role offers an opportunity to shape the future of how people interact with their homes. The team focuses on building automations and ambient experiences that proactively assist customers with safety, energy efficiency, comfort, and time management.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you'll be part of the Smart Home Automations team, working on intelligent features that anticipate customer needs and automate smart home actions. The role involves designing and implementing scalable services that enable seamless integration of smart home devices into the Alexa ecosystem. You'll work with distributed systems, handling complex architectural challenges while ensuring high performance and reliability.

The position offers the unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology while delivering practical solutions that directly impact people's daily lives. You'll collaborate with a diverse team of engineers, product managers, and designers in an environment that values innovation and customer-first thinking. The team maintains a healthy work-life balance and fosters a collaborative culture where continuous improvement is encouraged.

This role is ideal for experienced engineers who are passionate about building scalable, mission-critical services and want to make a significant impact in the smart home technology space. You'll be working with a team that values technical excellence, mentorship, and long-term thinking. The position offers the satisfaction of working on products that friends and family can relate to and use daily, while being part of Amazon's larger mission to make homes smarter and lives easier.

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Responsibilities For Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

  • Drive the technical roadmap and strategy for Smart Home Automations and Ambient Experiences
  • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to design and bring innovative products to market
  • Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment
  • Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems
  • Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable and fault-tolerant
  • Design and code solutions starting with broadly defined problems
  • Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

Requirements For Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

Java
Python
  • 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Benefits For Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
  • Workplace accommodation for disabilities

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