Job Description

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

Job summary
Are you excited about the online streaming future of the NFL, French Open, UEFA Champion’s League, and English Premiere League? That’s just half of it! We are also the home of The Expanse, The Boys, Lord of the Rings, and the largest streaming content library in the world. Delivery Technology is responsible for making sure every byte of video gets to our millions of customers globally, at the highest quality possible. We are growing rapidly and looking for talented Engineers who are up for one of the biggest challenges in the video streaming business live-streaming millions of concurrent streams and delivering high-quality content to millions of users WW on demand.

As an engineer on our team, you will build systems that serve billions of requests per day, exabytes of video content downloaded every day, with ultra-low latency design, with high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, and internal AWS incubator technologies. Successful candidates have a solid background in modern programming languages, distributed system design, service-oriented architecture, and video streaming technologies. Experience is preferred in large-scale networking, CDNs, streaming technologies, and massive scale systems. Equally important is the ability to multi-task, invent, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems. We’re building a next generation intelligent content traffic routing platform and are looking for technology leaders to help make that vision a reality. Hit me up for coffee and I'll tell you more!

Key job responsibilities
Ownership: Work on real world problems at a global scale, own end-to-end production systems, and influence the direction of our technology that impacts over 100 million Amazon customers on thousands of device types in over 250 territories worldwide. You get to actually learn the inner workings of an agile team, what it means to own projects and milestones, and how to get things done in Amazon.

Nature of Work: Design flexible and scalable solutions, and work on complex challenges in large-scale computing utilizing skills in data structures, algorithms, and object oriented programming. You will have a solid support network of Senior and Principal Engineers, that help you be successful in the day-to-day and in the long-term.

A day in the life
Team: Be part of a small and nimble team of 8-10 engineers, building secure, reliable, and scalable features. You would enjoy working with peers that get along well with each other, have fun together, and genuinely care about helping each other grow professionally.

Mentoring: Collaborate with Senior and Principal Engineers with deep knowledge in the Playback and Delivery technology domains. Apply the lessons learned to mentor junior engineers, and help grow the team by participating in SDE interviews. With an open-minded team such as ours, you will have an eager-to-learn unit of peers with whom you get to grow mutually.

About the team
Customers love Prime Video for the wide selection of media titles and the value for money it offers. We make it easy, convenient & secure to deliver on-demand and live media content to Amazon customers. To make this all happen, we own and build mission critical services with security and low latency at its core. Our engineers work on systems that form the underpinnings of all media delivery in Amazon, and solve complex engineering problems with broad customer impact.

We are the underpinnings of all of Amazon Video. We own the complex and challenging action of delivering every fragment of video that Prime Video streams to our customers at the highest possible quality. We do everything that enables the Watch Now button to deliver a smooth playback experience to over 100 million customers across a variety of devices and content types. We run services that handle serve billions of requests per day, exabytes of video content downloaded every day, with high reliability and low operational overhead, offering a latency experience of 1ms or less.

• Knowledge of video streaming, video and audio codecs.
• Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript and node.js
• Appreciation of embedded software development and working with restricted resources.
• Working experience with Agile methods, test automation, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services

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