The Alexa Smart Home Cameras team is seeking an experienced Sr Software Development Engineer. The ideal candidate is an innovative self-starter who is looking for an opportunity to be both an individual contributor and technical lead.
Alexa Smart Home Cameras team enables Alexa with a sense of sight around customers homes with innovative experiences like “Alexa, show the front door” or other ambient features like automatic announcements with a live view of cameras where interesting events (person/package/doorbell) were detected. We provide a suite of APIs for 1P (Ring, Blink) and 3P partners to integrate with and enable these capabilities for their cameras. We achieve this by developing technology across Computer Vision, media streaming, real-time communication, and the Alexa app. Our customers are end-consumers who want to use Alexa-enabled devices to simplify their experiences with their smart home cameras and doorbells, as well as the developers that make the devices, like Ring, Arlo, Nest, and Wyze.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Cameras team, you will lead the technical aspects of Cameras customer experience on Echo, FireTV devices and engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to design, implement and bring to market innovative products and features. You will -
- Help develop technical roadmap, strategy, customer experience and roadmap for Cameras product initiatives
- Create buy-in for the technical vision and strategy both internally and with key external partners
- Design and build reliable, high-performance applications for a variety of Amazon devices (e.g., Amazon Echo, FireTV) at a high-quality bar
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver the best product for our customers
- Provide technical leadership to a high-performing team and mentor junior team members to support their career growth