Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connections

Amazon
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Description

Do you want to shape how people stay connected across calls, text, and email? Alexa Connections is building a trusted communication agent that understands intent, context, and relationships, then acts on a customer's behalf to make every interaction feel natural. As a Software Development Engineer on this team, you'll design and deliver the software systems behind a context-aware assistant that grows more helpful over time. You'll work across the full software development lifecycle — from understanding customer problems, through system design and implementation, to deployment and operations — building privacy-first solutions that serve tens of millions of daily communication events.

Key job responsibilities

  • Design and implement software services that model each customer's personal connections graph, a privacy-first representation of relationships and communication patterns used to power context-aware assistance.
  • Build and operate scalable backend systems that integrate large language models and agentic reasoning to anticipate who, when, and how a customer wants to connect across calls, text, and email.
  • Collaborate with scientists, product managers, and peer engineering teams to translate research advances in personalization and memory into reliable, production-grade features.
  • Contribute to the full software development lifecycle — scoping, design, code review, testing, deployment, and operational support — while coaching teammates through constructive code reviews and documentation.
  • Identify and resolve root causes of operational issues, and continuously improve system reliability, maintainability, and performance.

A day in the life

Your morning might start with a design review for a new personalization feature, working through tradeoffs in scalability and data privacy with senior engineers and applied scientists. After lunch you could be writing and testing code for a service that ranks a customer's most relevant contacts, then pairing with a teammate on a code review. You'll regularly join standups with product managers and scientists to align on priorities, and you'll rotate through on-call responsibilities to keep the systems you build running smoothly.

About The Team

The Alexa Connections team is growing, so you'll join early and help shape its engineering culture from the ground up. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and scientists who are invested in your growth, with mentorship and the chance to own meaningful problems. Our mission is to make communication effortless and trustworthy for customers worldwide, and we're focused on building intelligent, privacy-first systems that redefine how people stay in touch.

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Company - ADCI MAA 12 SEZ

Job ID: A10592247

Score my resume against this job, free →

Questions about this job

How do I apply for the Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connections job at Amazon?

Use the apply link on this page: you apply directly with Amazon on LinkedIn. Before you do, score your resume against this job description on Fitboard. It shows which skills and keywords the job asks for that your resume doesn't show, so you can fix them first.

What skills does Amazon want for this Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connections role?

The job description asks for software development, design or architecture and programming. Make sure your resume shows the ones you have, in the words the job uses: applicant tracking systems look for them.

How can I get a job at Amazon?

Apply to the Amazon roles that match your experience, and tailor your resume to each job description: for this role that means showing software development, design or architecture, programming. A resume that matches the job's own keywords is more likely to get past screening. Fitboard scores your resume against this exact job for free.

Is this Software Development Engineer, Alexa Connections job remote or onsite?

This is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Is it free to apply? Does Fitboard charge anything?

Applying is free: you apply directly with Amazon, and this job page and its apply link cost nothing. Checking your resume against this job is free too, with 3 free scans when you sign in and no credit card needed.

Will you get shortlisted for this role? Check your match free →