Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music

Amazon Music • San Francisco, CA

14h

About The Position

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music The Amazon Music User Primitives team is looking for a passionate, innovative, and results-oriented Software Development Engineer to help us reimagine the user primitives and experiences for customers, unlocking new features and empowering customers to share their music with friends. As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Music User Primitives team, you will be responsible for systems that power the library, playlist and queue experience for millions of customers. You will work with a team of high-caliber engineers to create new scalable systems to manage the diverse set of customer features. Through experimentation, you and your team will solve for an optimally engaging music experience by delivering content seamlessly and help customers interact with their playlists in easy and intuitive ways. We use off the shelf AWS products such as EC2, ECS Lambda, EventBridge, S3, DynamoDB and CloudWatch. Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

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
• 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

• responsible for systems that power the library, playlist and queue experience for millions of customers.
• work with a team of high-caliber engineers to create new scalable systems to manage the diverse set of customer features.
• solve for an optimally engaging music experience by delivering content seamlessly and help customers interact with their playlists in easy and intuitive ways.

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