Voice for FireTV brings industry-leading Voice User Interface (VUI) to millions of customers around the world. Emerging technology space like AI/ML/LLM plays a key role in improving Amazon customer experience (CX) worldwide. To accomplish this, we partner with platform and services teams across FireTV as well as several teams across the Alexa org. Here you will drive key engineering features that impact Amazon's long-term vision on bringing the connected Alexa experience in the living room, supporting current and future generations of FireTV products.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment. This role will be working on Fire TV in the Alexa/Voice domain focusing on building new software solutions on device and cloud services for our customers and partner teams.

You will need to be able to work efficiently and effectively in a fun, fast-paced dynamic team environment. As a Software Development Engineer in Test, you will develop, execute, and maintain production-quality test automation solutions (e.g., test framework and tools) used to test new products and experiences, including those leveraging AI and LLM advancements.

You are expected to solve difficult software problems used to build, maintain, and improve product quality across devices, cloud services, and multiple locales. Your expertise should encompass a solid in-depth knowledge of on-device as well as distributed software development and testing practices, coupled with a good understanding of the operating system software, as well as knowledge of object-oriented design principles.

The test software you will build should expose API defects in production level code as well as defects at the component and feature integration prospective.

A day in the life

You will need to be able to work efficiently and effectively in a fun, fast-paced dynamic team environment. We have high expectations and constantly work to balance Deliver Results, Bias for Action, Ownership, and Insist on Highest Standards. Having a Backbone to disagree and committing to a decision once it's made is also a must.

You should have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of on-device as well as distributed software development and testing practices, good understanding of the operating system software, as well as knowledge of object oriented design principles.

About the team

SDETs in our team are expected to be SDEs first, building production-level software solutions to complex problems. We are also known to ship production features alongside our SDEs, help our QAEs build sustainable automation solutions/strategies, and provide automation, CI/CD, and BI solutions to our partner teams to increase collaboration and reduce risks in system and app releases.

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

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience

- 1+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

- Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment

- Experience in platform-level security mitigations and hardening for Linux and Windows

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment

- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/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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