We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join a greenfield platform team building ambient intelligence for Alexa. You will design and implement distributed systems that process real-time context streams, orchestrate large language model inference, and deliver proactive experiences to millions of customers. You'll work across the full stack - from low-latency event-driven architectures to cloud-scale ML serving infrastructure - and have direct impact on how Alexa anticipates and acts on customer needs.
Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, build, and operate innovative products and services that delight our customers, while participating in technical discussions to drive solutions forward.
• Design and develop scalable solutions using cloud-native architectures and microservices in a large distributed computing environment.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation.
• Build and maintain resilient distributed systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-effective.
• Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and AI-powered tools to enhance development productivity while staying current with emerging technologies.
• Write clean, maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.
• Work in an agile environment practicing CI/CD principles while participating in operational responsibilities including on-call duties.
• Demonstrate operational excellence through monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues.
About the team
We're building the next generation of ambient intelligence for Alexa - a greenfield platform team at the intersection of large language models, real-time stream processing, and edge-to-cloud computing. Our mission is to make Alexa proactively helpful by understanding context as it happens and turning it into meaningful action. This is cutting-edge AI engineering: low-latency inference orchestration, distributed event-driven architectures, and novel ML integration patterns - all operating at massive scale. If you want to shape the future of proactive AI from the ground up, this is the team.
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
The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, ON, Toronto - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
