Alexa Situational Context team is situated at the center of all Alexa customer experiences. As more and more customers setup multiple Alexa enabled devices in their home, we are looking for a passionate, hard-working and talented Senior Software Engineer for the Amazon Alexa org who has experience building innovative, mission critical cloud services in the Alexa. You will have an exciting opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and development of our consumer services.

Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
· Develop scalable cloud services that can handles millions of requests
· Investigate and propose design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility
· Map out the Architecture and Design of new and current systems incorporating Machine Learning
· Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software

You will be part of Sensing and Perception team which comprises of services such as Echo Spatial Perception (ESP), Presence Detection and Ambient learning of the customer environment – Where is the customer and What is around the customer. You will work with other Software developers and directly interact with Principal and Sr. Engineers, Principal Product Managers, Sr. Technical Program Managers, Sr. Applied Scientists, and other leaders of Alexa org.

What's unique about Sensing and Perception team is that - We delight the customer by selecting the best device to listen to when the customer speaks. We use multiple modalities to determine the best device to respond from. We operate with a clear sense of Ownership and drive Device as well as multiple Cloud organizations to achieve the right experience for our customers.

Your role is to create innovative multi-device solutions, build and maintain large-scale cloud services, influence changes to multiple Alexa core systems, and participate in building long term vision for Sensing and Perception. You'll measure your success by the quality of your deliverables, pace of innovation you help drive, and the impact you make for our customers.

Are you the person that can help in building next generation of mission critical frameworks and services that enable Alexa to go bigger? Are you ready to take on big challenges and make a difference at a company that matters? Do you want to make a large impact on the design and architecture of products used by millions of customers every day? If yes, we would love to talk to you.


A day in the life

Alexa Sensing and Perception team is a small Agile family. This means you'll enjoy an outsized impact and the benefit of having many different responsibilities. All within a day, you'll gather requirements, disambiguate and design complex features, collaborate with ML scientists, guide other Software Developers, develop and work on new features, analyze stability of these features, request reproduction of a bug from QA, review a technical spec with the team, perform code reviews, prioritize incoming CS tickets, and collaborate with product on the feasibility of new customer experiences. Our engineers are owners and technical product specialists, in a truly fun and exceptionally high impact space.


About the team
This team built Alexa's Echo Spatial Perception (ESP) capability and Occupancy based Smart Home Routines. This role has direct impact on millions of Alexa customers and thousands of Alexa Skill developers worldwide.