Software Development Engineer, Alexa Games

3 weeks ago

Irvine, California, United States Amazon Full time
Do you want to solve business challenges that influence and impact Alexa customers and third-party Alexa developers? Do you want to be part of the team that focuses on making Alexa fun, seamless, and remarkable for our customers? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable technologies such as LLM?


In Alexa Games, we are looking to hire SDEs that can solve challenges for customers who play games on 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 be a part of the Alexa Games experience.

Key job responsibilities

  • Collaborate with experienced crossdisciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
  • Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
  • Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
  • Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, faulttolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
  • Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
  • Work in an agile environment to deliver highquality software.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Irvine, CA, USA
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

  • 2+ years of noninternship 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 committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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