SDE-II, Alexa Subscriptions Growth

AI in this role

We are constantly making Alexa the best personal assistant in the world. The Alexa Subscriptions & Monetization team in Hyderabad is hiring talented software engineers to build features for customer safety, subscriptions for Alexa and monetize them. Join a team doing innovative work. Make a direct impact to customers, show measurable success, and build with the latest artificial intelligence systems.

If you are holding out for an opportunity to:
• Make a huge impact as an individual
• Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day
• Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions
• Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people
• Work with artificial intelligence systems to deliver real experiences

And you are experienced with…
• Writing highly efficient, testable, quality code written with Java, C++, or C# (or another excellent OO language)
• Application scaling, resiliency, availability, and failover
• Researching implementations to find the best possible experience for a customer
• Taking ownership and doing whatever it takes to get the job done
And you constantly look for opportunities to…
• Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies
• Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions
• Automate processes otherwise performed by humans
• Learn from others and help grow those around you

...then we would love to chat!

A day in the life
If you are looking for to solve unique problems in Subscriptions, Safety & Monetization space and influence tech architecture and make wider impact, this is the team for you! We are looking for an SDE to drive system design and development of services in a strategically significant domain. We are proud to boast a low ops load, and a tech architecture focused on micro-services in NAWS and single responsibility as key tenets.

About the team
The Alexa Subscriptions & Monetization team is responsible for building and expanding the subscriptions for paid features in Alexa. The also builds systems to upsell the subscriptions and works with marketing team to launch new subscriptions. The teams also owns features for Emergency assist subscription. Features like Emergency Alerts, connecting those in need of help to emergency services, Activity monitoring, AI based anomaly detection are a few examples.

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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How we rate this

SDE-II, Alexa Subscriptions Growth at Amazon rates 28 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.