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# Software Development Engineer, Alexa Communications

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $165,200.0 - $223,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Alexa, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Scrum Methodology, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Information Technology, Low Latency, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27902269/Software-Development-Engineer-Alexa-Communications-California-Sunnyvale-7375

## About the Role

5+ 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

## Description

Work closely with product and design teams to Influence overall product strategy.

 - Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
 - Building highly scalable, reliable and available distributed services leveraging AWS Cloud
 - Contributing to operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions
 - Writing clean, maintainable code and performing peer code-reviews
 - Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software
 - Find new ways to solve challenging problems every day
 - Build agentic APIs to deliver a low latency, low cost, highly reliable, and high scalable cloud services and device software solutions.

About the team
Alexa Connections aspires to make Alexa+ the world's most trusted connection assistant for getting things done and creating moments of joy. Our vision emphasizes a) Trust as our foundation for becoming a daily habit, knowing our customers have plentiful choices, b) Completion of end-to-end customer journeys, beyond shipping features, and c) Joy through personalized, proactive experiences, that create a memory.


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