Software Development Engineer, Alexa Customer Journeys

We are constantly making Alexa the best personal assistant in the world. The Alexa Customer Journeys team in Orange County is hiring talented software engineers to help build experiences for suggesting the best feature within various contexts. Join a team doing innovative work. Make a direct impact to customers, show measurable success, and build with the latest artificial intelligence systems.

If you are holding out for an opportunity to:

• Make a huge impact as an individual

• Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day

• Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions

• Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people

• Work with artificial intelligence systems to deliver real experiences

And you are experienced with...

• Writing highly efficient, testable, quality code written with Java, C++, or C# (or another excellent OO language)

• Application scaling, resiliency, availability, and failover

• Researching implementations to find the best possible experience for a customer

• Taking ownership and doing whatever it takes to get the job done

And you constantly look for opportunities to...

• Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies

• Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions

• Automate processes otherwise performed by humans

• Learn from others and help grow those around you

...then we would love to chat!

Key job responsibilities

- Demonstrate Think Big and Invent and Simplify in terms of identifying problems proactively and coming up innovative solutions.

- Demonstrate Bias for action and Deliver results in building the right strategy to unblock yourself, find ways to incrementally deliver small while working towards a long term vision, and knowing when to escalate in cases you are blocked.

- Demonstrate Hire and Develop the best and Insist on the highest standards in being a champion when it comes to developing other SDEs within the team through code and design reviews, operational excellence, and sharing knowledge broadly across different AWS technologies

- Demonstrate high ownership and Earns trust when it comes to working with product and other engineering managers, SDEs, and teams within the org as we build new services/ features and integrate our services with a variety of different touchpoints.

- Last but by no means the least, demonstrate strong learn and be curious in keeping up with all the new technologies out there especially Gen AI, Deep Learning, and ML and how we can best apply to exponentially grow the business.

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

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