Software Development Engineer, Smart Home Cameras

Job description

The Alexa Smart Home Cameras team is seeking an experienced 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 core Cameras backend services that power the customer experience on Echo, FireTV devices, Alexa App and engage with experienced cross-disciplinary teams to design implement and bring to market innovative products and features. You must be responsive, flexible and able to succeed within an open collaborative peer environment.