Software Development Engineer, Alexa Audio - Sunnyvale

Job Description

Are you interested in advancing Conversational Search and Content Discovery capabilities on Alexa devices worldwide? Are you interested in building engineering solutions that harness the power of Large Language Models (LLMs)? Do you feel excited about shaping the future of audio experience on intelligent AI assistant Alexa? If your answer is yes to any of those, please come join the Alexa Audio Conversational Search and Content Discovery team!

Alexa Audio is responsible for bringing the audio experience to the Alexa devices worldwide from various providers like Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, Sirius XM, Apple Music, Audible and others. Alexa Audio comprises of Music, Radio, Podcast, and Audio Books content. We are innovating and changing the way our customers interact with media on Alexa powered Echo devices and Smart TVs!

In this role, you will design new and rebuild existing solutions for the fast growing scale of the next generation of Alexa. You will have the opportunity to work with Scientists, Engineers, Product Managers, and Program Managers across various partners teams in Speech Recognition, AGI, Devices, and UX. You will build and maintain Tier-1 services to handle millions of requests per day. You will develop sustainable search solutions to serve high-performance search results to millions of Alexa customers.

You will not only go through full software development cycle but also, more importantly drive appropriate technology choices for the business, lead the way for continuous innovation, and shape the future of Alexa Audio search and recommendations.

Key job responsibilities
* Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and build innovative products and services in a large distributed computing environment
* Build distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use
* Ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
* Define and achieve performance metrics, and instill the operational practices needed to sustain them
* On-call rotation to support the services we owned
* Mentor more junior team members in their career growth

About the team
We're a long-standing diverse team who pride ourselves in working together to leverage each person's unique skills and talents. Our goal is to provide better Alexa Audio experience to our customers while also maintaining creative working atmosphere.
We're agile with a healthy work ethic, deliver features our friends and family love and strike a good balance with work-life harmony.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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
- 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.