Software Development Engineer, Alexa Audio

A person in this role is expected to: 1. Design, implement, and deliver software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces of Alexa Audio working with partners such as product managers, technical program managers, and senior/principal engineers to deliver on the business goals related to Audio Experience. 2. Create infrastructure to bring the power of LLMs into the Audio space while championing best practices for software engineering and operational excellence. 3. Create tools and software to evaluate, analyze, and improve the model accuracy for various Audio experiences, while reducing latency and customer friction. 4. Influence the operational and engineering excellence roadmap across core audio services set by the lead SDEs to proactively address peak readiness, hardware efficiency, scaling, throttling and improve availability & resiliency for Alexa Audio Services. 5. Provide valuable design feedback around latency considerations, two-way door decisions and valuable coding feedback around coding standards, quality, versioning to both internal and external away teams, guide them on best practices for developing within Audio owned services and push back on proposals which do not adhere to our high quality standards. 6. Mentor junior members of the team and help them onboard. They participate in interviews and hiring efforts for the team, and constantly share knowledge of components they own and have ex 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

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.