Senior Software Engineer

Amazon•San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

IVS is building the future of interactive video. The Video Server Platform Network Traffic Management (NTM) team is seeking an experienced back end distributed systems developer to lead the design and development of our next generation video distribution system. This role focuses on building systems that manage traffic delivery across multiple CDNs (Content Delivery Networks). If you’re excited by the idea of building back end services that overate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video, this is the position for you. You can work in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.

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
6+ years of professional software development or equivalent expertise
Strong background in Golang/Go
B.A. or B.S. in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent years of experience
Built and operated distributed systems at scale
Deployed and managed services on AWS infrastructure

Nice To Haves

Experience building or running a CDN
Background in media protocols, ideally video
Background in networking

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver the next generation of the Twitch Video Distribution system.
Design and implement the systems which shape traffic across multiple CDNs, including our own custom live video specialized CDN
Build robust, operable, and maintainable distributed software systems
Provide technical leadership and guidance to intermediate and junior members of the team