Senior Software Engineer, Alexa Audio & Generative AI

Socket.dev; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Vancouver, BC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead and deliver software for Alexa Audio. You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with product management, design, and data teams, and drive architecture with a strong focus on performance and reliability.

You will mentor colleagues, advocate for high engineering standards, and advance generative AI initiatives including LLM-based audio experiences across devices and regions.

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deliver software in ambiguous and complex problem spaces of Alexa Audio working with partners such as product managers, technical program managers, and senior/principal engineers to deliver on the business goals related to Audio Experience.
• Create infrastructure to bring the power of LLMs into the Audio space while championing best practices for software engineering and operational excellence.
• Create tools and software to evaluate, analyze, and improve the model accuracy for various Audio experiences, while reducing latency and customer friction.
• Influence the operational and engineering excellence roadmap across core audio services set by the lead SDEs to proactively address peak readiness, hardware efficiency, scaling, throttling and improve availability & resiliency for Alexa Audio Services.
• Provide valuable design feedback around latency considerations, two-way door decisions and valuable coding feedback around coding standards, quality, versioning to both internal and external away teams, guide them on best practices for developing within Audio owned services and push back on proposals which do not adhere to our high quality standards.
• Mentor junior members of the team and help them onboard. They participate in interviews and hiring efforts for the team, and constantly share knowledge of components they own and have expert knowledge of through mediums such as demos, lunch-n-learns, and org-wide emails.
• Leadership principles that are most important for this role are ownership, deliver results, deep dive, bias for action, hire & develop the best, and earns trust.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon in Vancouver, BC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead and deliver software for Alexa Audio. You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with product management, design, and data teams, and drive architecture with a strong focus on performance and reliability.

You will mentor colleagues, advocate for high engineering standards, and advance generative AI initiatives including LLM-based audio experiences across devices and regions.