Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports and Linear

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Sports and Linear represent the next major growth verticals for Prime Video. We're acquiring the biggest and best Sports events (e.g. NFL, NBA) and also defining the best live TV experience on Prime Video, investing in our people to reinvent the future of entertainment! Our team is responsible for building the Prime Video Sports and Linear experiences across all clients that Prime Video supports (living room devices, mobile, web). We are coders and craftspeople who care as much about how things look and feel as how they function and perform. We seek diverse perspectives and create accessible experiences for all people to enjoy. We strive to move fast for customers but prioritize long-term decisions that will scale as we grow. Our team focuses on customer-facing, high-visibility, high-impact projects to improve the customer experience for live events. PV Sports and Linear provides the opportunity to design and build new full stack features end-to-end. Our team has access to multiple PEs and SDE IIIs across PV Sports and Linear and also within Prime Video to regularly engage with. They provide mentorship and support for career progression of our team members. At Prime Video, we mirror our customers. We believe in building teams and products that reflect and offer an inclusive environment for all of our customers, current and future. We celebrate diverse perspectives, and we create environments where all team members feel valued, trusted, connected, and informed. Our employees utilize inclusive benefit offerings, attend annual conferences such as CORE+ (intersectional conversations on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.), and participate in over twelve different employee-led affinity groups. Our teams build inclusive culture through biweekly team-building events and by working together to define processes and schedules that value work-life balance. And finally, our company leaders work actively to honor Amazon's public commitment to fostering diversity and being Earth's Best Employer.

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 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
• Working experience with Rust programming language

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary SDEs to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

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