Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ad Measurement

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Would you like to shape the future of the video entertainment industry for
movies, TV and live sports events? Does solving complex problems within large
scale systems excite you? If you answered yes, we have an opportunity for you!

Prime Video is disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a
growing library of high-quality media. Prime Video launched in 2007 and has
quickly become a strategic priority for the company, reflected in the service’s
recent expansion into over 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon
invests in acquiring, producing and programming TV shows, movies and live events
including must-see exclusive series like Hunters, The Grand Tour, The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel, The Man in the High Castle, UFC, English Premier League, Thursday
Night Football and more.

Prime Video Ad Measurement systems directly impact the Ad monetization/revenue.

(1) Ad Measurement services for DAI (dynamic ad insertion) are low-latency,
highly scalable and available on the "Live" and "VOD" call paths for pulling
1P/3P Ad trackers, proxying , enriching and firing Ad trackers back to Ad
Agencies.

(2) Nielsen Audience measurement services enable Nielsen national ratings (i.e.
DTVR and DCR) by sending real-time and batch data via S2S Nielsen integration,
which includes artifacts
from PV production, encoding, players, catalog and playback telemetry.

Our architecture processes and handles high TPS (in millions for Live events)
with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage many
Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, Redis, ALBs, S3, Kinesis,
Lambda, Athena, and EMR.

Successful Software Engineer candidates have a solid background in modern
programming languages, distributed system design, service-oriented architecture,
and high scalability. Experience in Big Data is a plus. Equally important is the
ability to multi-task, invent, create reliable and maintainable code, and find
creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.

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

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

Responsibilities

• Build/design high availability, high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Develop public-facing services and other large-scale distributed systems
• Work across teams (dependencies, downstream, peer teams)
• Handle day-to-day operations

Benefits

• 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