Live Streaming - Software Development Engineer (Prime Video)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

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.

You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and movies.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

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

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/Vet

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Degree in Computer Science or related field
· 3+ years of product development experience in consumer-focused companies
· 3+ years of technical experience as software developer, or related role
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
· Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Experience developing in at least one of Java, C++, Python
· Ability to work on a diverse team