Software Development Engineer, Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Skills Kit

Software Development Engineer, Alexa Skills Kit

Interested in Amazon Echo? Ever wonder what's involved in enabling millions of developers to create skills for Alexa? Then come help us build the Alexa Skills Kit that developers use every day to expand Alexa’s skill set!

In the Alexa Skills Kit Runtime team, you will build tier 1 services and systems that enable the Alexa voice experience. You will set technical standards and drive the overall technical architecture and engineering practices for both the Alexa team and numerous third-party developers. You will design systems that handle, store, dispatch, and transform APIs (1P/3P), events, directives, etc. You will be responsible for designing and implementing low latency, highly secure, highly available, low cost, scalable tier 1 services that establish communication between Alexa and third-party developers.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Building software that runs with high quality on millions of Echo family devices and Alexa-enabled devices.
2. Taking a long-term view of architecture, proactively fixing deficiencies and/or proposing larger projects.
3. Understanding the business impact of your systems and showing good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
4. Driving engineering best practices (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, etc.) and setting standards.
5. Finding the best way forward when confronted with discordant views and influencing others to follow that path.
6. Contributing to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.

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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