Software Dev Engineer II, Alexa Smart Home
Alexa is 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.
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
Develop highly scalable services to manage billions of smart devices connected to Alexa through the cloud.
Work across Alexa skills, voice user interfaces, cloud services, and a rapidly-growing ecosystem of IoT devices.
Lay the foundation to move from directed device interactions to learned behaviors that span multiple devices throughout the home.
Enjoy the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to and want to use every day.
A Day in the Life
The Alexa Smart Home team is an organization of engineers committed to bringing innovative Smart Home experiences to Amazon customers.
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.
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.
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
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December 2, **** (Updated about 4 hours ago)
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