Amazon

Software Development Engineer, Alexa Alarms

Posted On

Nov. 22, 2024

Location

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Software Development

Apply By

Jan. 28, 2025

Job Description

Are you excited to work on a product which is used by millions of customers on a daily basis? Come and join the Alexa Alarms team. Our team owns several high volume features and we believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains and are looking for people that will help us shape the future of Alexa.

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand.

The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years. If this sounds interesting to you, apply and come chart your own path at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities
- Leading development and maintenance of key system features
- Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software
- Deploy applications on devices and cloud platforms, and manage their lifecycle.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and team meetings.
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.

A day in the life
The Alexa Alarms team’s charter is to become the world's best alarm clock, and our goal is to provide customers with a reliable and delightful wake up experience. Alarms are one of the most highly used features on Alexa, and the candidate joining the team can drive high impact through his/her contributions. Alarms is a high traffic domain and hosts an ecosystem of distributed cloud-side services and device infrastructure to support high customer traffic. The nature of the system leads to several challenges, including scaling and reliability, which are the top focus areas for the team. We are growing our product into new avenues and are working on exciting new features. Our vision is to become a successful sleep and wake up assistant and get our customers to sleep better and help wake them up at the right time.- 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

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