Software Development Engineer, Live Streaming (Prime Video)

Job summary

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we're just getting started. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help build a world-class Live Streaming Platform.

The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the Prime Video viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level. You will develop the service to run on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure (AWS) and have opportunities to interact with teams inside and outside the organization, plus to work on a variety of video devices such as the Kindle Fire, Fire TV, Fire phone, game consoles, Internet-connected TVs, BD Players, set-top-boxes, and mobile devices.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with critical, 24x7 systems

Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems

Experience developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems, that have been successfully delivered to customers

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between

Experience mentoring engineers

Experience and knowledge of media container and codec formats, streaming protocols, encoding tools is a plus.