Do you want to help make Alexa smarter for our users? How about developing massive scale Datalake that can help improving people's day-to-day life such as grocery ordering, music playing, smart home control, etc? At Alexa's Data Services team, we build services that enable secure, fast, and massive machine learning systems, helping to make Alexa the world's fastest developing and most engaging voice assistant. Alexa Data services ingest data at the exabyte scale, enable ML components to discover data and create streaming data preparation pipelines for continuous training. Data is the fuel to Alexa's AI future, Alexa Data Services team owns and builds systems that can make this happen at scale, as well as treat customer's privacy seriously. We have micro services scaling to 100Ks of TPS, stringent SLAs at 10’s of millisecond latency and 99.9999% availability rate.
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What You'll Do
Design and build high-performance services handling 100,000+ transactions per second
Develop secure, scalable data ingestion systems operating at exabyte scale
Create streaming data preparation pipelines supporting continuous ML training
Maintain services with strict SLAs (10ms latency, 99.9999% availability)
Collaborate with ML scientists to optimize data infrastructure
Our Technology Stack
Programming Languages: Java, Python
Cloud Platform: AWS
Focus Areas: Data Lakes, Microservices, Machine Learning Infrastructure
What We Offer
Career Growth: Dedicated leadership support for your professional development
Collaborative Culture: Open communication and knowledge sharing environment
Learning Opportunities: Exposure to cutting-edge ML and AI technologies
Meaningful Impact: Build systems that improve millions of users' daily lives
What We Value
Customer Obsession: Passionate focus on user needs
Technical Excellence: Building robust, scalable solutions
Data Privacy: Commitment to protecting customer information
Team Collaboration: Supporting and learning from colleagues
Requirements
Strong software development experience in Java and/or Python
Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms
Understanding of data processing and storage systems
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.