Principal Software Engineer, Alexa AI (AURORA)

Interested in building Amazon Alexa, Machine Learning, and Generative Artificial Intelligence? We're building products and services that power state of the art for Amazon customers. Come join us! The Alexa AI org is looking for a Principal Engineer to join Aurora (Alexa Understanding, Runtime, ORchestration, and Applied Sciences) — Alexa's AI runtime backbone and horizontal intelligence organization. Aurora is a science and engineering organization that advances research while delivering robust, scalable runtime solutions. We revolutionize conversational AI through three core pillars: architecting mission-critical AI runtime systems, advancing science solutions that connect key conversational capabilities, and transforming how builders create at scale. This role sits at the intersection of latest AI research and large-scale production systems, where you will architect and deliver Pragmatic AI capabilities — AI that is not just technically impressive, but reliably useful, trustworthy, and accessible to real customers in their everyday lives. What makes this role unique Yo BASIC QUALIFICATIONS •12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience •8+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience •Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team • Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes. • Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects, driving strategic technical decisions. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS • Experience designing, building & operating large scale, highly available, secure cloud infrastructure. • Experience with AI software systems including Agents. • 15+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience • 10+ years of highly scalable systems experience

Amazon is a global technology company operating in e-commerce, cloud computing (AWS), digital streaming, advertising and artificial intelligence. Its India operations span development centres in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Gurugram and Mumbai, covering retail technology, AWS infrastructure, Alexa, advertising, payments and supply-chain systems.