Senior Software Engineer

Amazon • Seattle, WA

94d • $151,300 - $261,500

About The Position

This position is on the Video Edge team, responsible for the ingestion of hundreds of thousands or live video content, as well as the distribution worldwide to millions of viewers. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable systems that enable our customers to ingest and watch live video. If you're excited by the idea of building backend distributed systems that operate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video, this position is for you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• 6+ years of work experience as a software engineer.
• Strong background in the Golang programming language.
• Background in deploying and operating services in the AWS ecosystem.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers.

Nice To Haves

• Background in media protocols (audio / video).
• Experience building highly available and resilient systems.
• Experience building distributed systems at scale.
• Background in computer networking.
• Familiarity with Live Video platforms, either as a viewer or creator, or both.

Responsibilities

• Work with data analysts, product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate distributed systems at scale.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior members of the team.
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions.
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance.
• 401(k).
• Maternity & Parental Leave.
• Amazon Employee Discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree