Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Web Players

Amazon • Seattle, WA

21h • Onsite

About The Position

The Web Players team owns the Prime Video players on web browsers, embedded web views, and the Chromecast receiver app. We build everything from the player UI down to integrating with browser media APIs. The team is passionate about building an accessible player and has enabled features such as Next Up, in-playback broadcast switching, and playback on the Amazon.com home page. For Sport enthusiasts we support live games experiences such as Thursday Night Football and UEFA Champions League, obsessing over high-quality zero interruption streams. Every day we are innovating to enhance our customer experience, whether they want to enjoy new hit shows like The Boys or watch live sports like Thursday Night Football. As an engineer on the team you will work closely with Product management to develop and improve the Web Player experience, build SDKs to support player features such as accessibility, and Integrate and analyze video playback analytics solutions to continually optimize performance. Our team enjoys a fast paced, highly collaborative environment. To be successful, you will need to be flexible and entrepreneurial. You work on big, creative ideas, and you are hands on with incremental features. You are a true owner – you care about the customer experience deeply and you care about the long term sustainability of the product just as deep. You create extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners)
• Exceptional technical expertise
• Sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science
• Practical experience building large-scale distributed systems

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with HTML5 video player development
• Familiarity with Widevine and PlayReady DRM technologies
• Familiarity with different video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, etc.)
• Familiarity with optimizing player performance
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• TypeScript and JavaScript development
• HTML5 video player development
• Widevine and PlayReady DRM technologies
• Video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, etc.)
• Optimizing player performance
• Collaborating with other teams to resolve issues and facilitate playback integration
• Multi-tasking, adapting quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements
• Learning new systems and gaining new skills
• Creating reliable & maintainable code
• Finding creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems
• Communicating clearly and concisely both written and orally
• Working closely with Product management to develop and improve the Web Player experience
• Building SDKs to support player features such as accessibility
• Integrating and analyzing video playback analytics solutions to continually optimize performance
• Creating extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree