Lead agentic AI architecture for Alexa+'s conversational communication features

Amazon is hiring a Senior SDE for the Alexa Connections team to design and scale real-time agentic AI systems powering Alexa+'s Communications features. The role sits at the intersection of full-stack development, distributed systems, and applied AI, with explicit expectations of technical leadership and architecture ownership.

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What this interview tests

Distributed systems design for real-time, high-availability services
Agentic AI / conversational AI system architecture
Technical leadership: mentoring, driving architecture decisions, tech-lead scope
Full-stack development across data, backend, and AI layers
Data quality and availability tradeoffs at scale

Common question themes

Walk through a system you architected end-to-end, including the reliability/scaling tradeoffs you made

Tell me about a time you led or mentored engineers through a difficult technical decision

How would you design a real-time agentic AI pipeline that needs high data quality and availability?

Describe evaluating a new technology or approach and driving its adoption on your team

How do you balance CX quality bar with shipping speed on a conversational AI feature?

How candidates describe it

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