Software Dev Engineer II, Personal Devices

The future of personal computing is being reimagined for agentic AI and the software that brings it to life has to be fast reliable and delightful from the very first interaction. We are building a new class of Alexa-powered personal devices and we need engineers who want to build the systems and experiences that hundreds of millions of customers will touch every day.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Personal Mobile Devices team you will design build and ship the software that powers next-generation wearable devices and the agentic experiences that run on them. You will write production code across the stack on-device service and AI integration layers and own features end to end from design through launch and operation. This is hands-on building at the intersection of consumer hardware cloud services and agentic AI on a team shipping new-to-world products on tight timelines.

You will work closely with senior and principal engineers applied scientists product managers and designers to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software. You will be given real ownership early and the support to grow in your career.

Key job responsibilities
- Design implement test and operate high-quality software components and features for personal device experiences owning them from design through production.
- Write clean maintainable well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews raising the quality bar for yourself and the team.
- Partner with senior engineers to translate product and design requirements into sound technical designs making pragmatic trade-offs across performance reliability and time-to-market.
- Debug and resolve issues across the stack on-device software backend services and AI/agent integration layers and improve the systems that surface them.
- Contribute to operational excellence: build monitoring alarming and automation that keep services healthy and participate in on-call rotations.
- Collaborate across engineering applied science design and product to ship features on schedule communicating status and risks clearly.
- Continuously learn new tools frameworks and agentic AI capabilities and bring that knowledge back to the team.

About the team
Join a fast-paced high energy collaborative team working to define the future of Alexa powered Personal Devices! We can promise that you will work hard do exciting work and have the opportunity to invent and ship delightful devices and experiences for our customers and in the process learn and grow.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually