Software Development Engineer, Alexa Smart Home

- 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
- Proven device-side software development experience building high-performance applications or middleware components.
- 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
- Experience in video and audio coding standards (AVC, HEVC, OPUS, etc) and streaming (WebRTC, RTP, RTSP, etc) technologies. Familiarity with React Native framework is a plus

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The Alexa Smart Home Cameras team is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to contribute building innovative applications for IoT space.

Alexa Smart Home Cameras team enables Alexa with a sense of sight around customers homes with innovative experiences like “Alexa, show the front door” or other ambient features like automatic announcements with a live view of cameras where interesting events (person/package/doorbell) were detected. We provide a suite of APIs for 1P (Ring, Blink) and 3P partners to integrate with and enable these capabilities for their cameras. We achieve this by developing technology across Computer Vision, media streaming, real-time communication, and the Alexa app. Our customers are end-consumers who want to use Alexa-enabled devices to simplify their experiences with their smart home cameras and doorbells, as well as the developers that make the devices, like Ring, Arlo, Nest, and Wyze.

You will be successful if you are flexible and entrepreneurial, comfortable operating with ambiguity and willing to develop quick proof of concepts. You are excited to do whatever it takes to make the product successful and seeking an opportunity to grow as a technical leader. You are a true owner, you are passionate about the potential customer and societal impact and will operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs to creating solutions that are robust and deliver experiences that delight customers.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Cameras team, you will build Cameras customer experience on Echo, FireTV devices and engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to design, implement and bring to market innovative products and features. You will -

- Build and maintain reliable, high-performance applications for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV)
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver the best product for our customers
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software
- Mentor junior engineers to help create a high performing team

About the team
Alexa Smart Home Cameras team builds features and APIs for Alexa that allows her to have a sense of sight, voice, and presence anywhere, anytime. Our customers are camera device manufacturers, developers, and end-customers. Our technology solutions span ML/AI, media streaming, real-time communication, app development.