Senior Software Development Engineer - Alexa - Product Knowledge Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Our vision is that Alexa will be the world's most knowledgeable product expert who knows you, in a store that sells everything. All those moments when we need or want to know more about the products we use every day, will have instant satisfaction of an answer: just ask Alexa. We are building a digital product expert that is always available, with super-human knowledge of every product ever made.

We are seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to build our Product Information Engine. You and your team will build the platform to ingest data from Amazon's vast and varied stores of product information, understand unstructured and semi-structured data, index them, and serve back answers to users' questions in real time. You will work on new techniques and technologies to capture voice-friendly data that will be presented to users with voice-first supported devices.

You will ship new customer-facing improvements every sprint, reaching MM of Amazon customers that are excited to learn more about products with Alexa. The platform you build will get better over time, learning from new data, user behavior, and better models to provide more helpful answers to an ever-growing number of product questions.

In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deploy massively scalable services, while at the same time redefining customer's expectations for what an intelligent assistant can answer. As a key leader respected for your technical judgement, you will influence design, define features, drive operational excellence, and spearhead the best practices, enabling the whole organization to ship high quality services to millions of customers every sprint. Come and help us build the future!