SDE-II, Alexa Sensitive Content & Intelligence

Global technology company specializing in e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
$129,300 - $223,600
Machine Learning
Mid-Level Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
3+ years of experience
AI

Description For SDE-II, Alexa Sensitive Content & Intelligence

Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence is seeking a skilled SDE-II to join their team focused on protecting customers from sensitive content across all Alexa interactions. This role sits at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and trust & safety, working with cutting-edge technologies including Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

The team's mission is critical - they ensure Alexa provides safe, engaging conversational experiences across all languages, locales, devices, and content modalities (image, text, video, and audio). As an SDE-II, you'll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions that leverage natural language understanding and machine learning to identify and handle sensitive content in real-time.

You'll work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment, building services that must meet strict latency requirements for both classic Alexa and LLM-based interactions. The role offers exciting challenges in scaling trust & safety solutions across multiple modalities and expanding services across various business domains.

Key responsibilities include owning feature development end-to-end, collaborating with product and science teams, participating in technical design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. You'll be expected to develop architectures for complex, cross-functional applications while ensuring high availability and security compliance.

The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $129,300 to $223,600 based on location and experience, plus additional benefits including equity, sign-on bonuses, and comprehensive medical coverage. This is an excellent opportunity for engineers passionate about applying AI to real-world trust & safety challenges while working with one of the world's most-used AI assistants.

Last updated 11 hours ago

Responsibilities For SDE-II, Alexa Sensitive Content & Intelligence

  • Own feature enhancements end to end
  • Collaborate with product and science teams
  • Design, develop and launch in production
  • Participate in design reviews/code reviews
  • Develop design for complex, cross functional, multimodal and multi locale applications
  • Build low-latency services optimized for performance
  • Own full stack software development
  • Mentor junior engineers

Requirements For SDE-II, Alexa Sensitive Content & Intelligence

Python
Java
JavaScript
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Benefits For SDE-II, Alexa Sensitive Content & Intelligence

Medical Insurance
401k
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • 401k
  • Equity compensation available
  • Sign-on payments possible

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