Software Dev Engineer II, Alexa Smart Home
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
Want to work on the ground-breaking personal assistant from Amazon that is re-inventing the Smart Home? Alexa enables control of the entire home with your voice, the simplest and most natural form of communication.
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDE) that can contribute to the Smart Home portfolio. As an SDE in Alexa Smart Home, you will have direct impact on the experience of millions of customers in their home environment.
Key job responsibilities
As a SDE on the team, you will develop highly scalable services to manage billions of smart devices connected to Alexa through the cloud. Your work will span across Alexa skills, voice user interfaces, cloud services, and a rapidly-growing ecosystem of IoT devices. You will help lay the foundation to move from directed device interactions to learned behaviors that span multiple devices throughout the home. You will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. In your day-to-day, you will:
• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
A day in the life
We believe Alexa Smart Home has the rare opportunity to have a giant impact on the way people live. Your work will span voice user interfaces, cloud services, and a rapidly-growing ecosystem of IoT devices. You will help lay the foundation to move from directed device interactions to learned behaviors that span multiple devices throughout the home. And, you will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. Like the world of smart phones less than 15 years ago, this is a rare opportunity to have a giant impact on the way people live.
About the team
The Alexa Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the smart home. From the simplest voice commands (turn on the lights, turn down the thermostat) to use cases spanning home security, home entertainment, and the home environment, we are evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that automates daily routines, simplifies interaction with appliances and electronics, and helps customers get the most out of the technology in their lives.