Software Engineer II, Amazon Interactive Video Service

Amazon • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that makes low-latency or real-time video available to millions of viewers around the world, allowing you to create engaging live experiences. We serve some of the largest customers in the live-video space and are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible with live video technology. About the Role This position is on the Video Edge team, responsible for the ingestion from hundreds of thousands of live video creators, as well as the distribution worldwide to millions of viewers. As an engineer on this team, you will be focused on designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable systems that enable our customers to ingest and watch live video. If you're excited by the idea of building backend distributed systems that operate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video, this position is for you. You can work from Santa Clara (CA), San Francisco (CA) or Seattle (WA). About the team IVS processes a massive amount of live video channels and distributes them using the largest dedicated live video CDN in the world, delivering over 25Tbps to more than 5 million concurrent viewers. In addition to serving Twitch traffic, our video platform is offered as Amazon Interactive Video Service, an AWS service that allows the creation of a live video streaming platform with only a few lines of code. Engineers with our Video Team work across a range of areas including ingest, transcoding, and distribution with the lowest latency high-scale HLS distribution system in the world.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development 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
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience building services using AWS products
• 5+ years of building production software experience, or Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Partner with data analysts, product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate distributed systems at scale.
• Help define the future of the Amazon IVS video stack, including traffic shaping, infrastructure deployment, and infrastructure automation.
• Build novel video features to improve the interactivity of live video streaming
• Collaborate with our team and partner teams and fostering a shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact
• Design, implement, and deploy new live video features including dynamic slates and video advertisements
• Design, implement, and deploy new CDN features such as intelligest traffic shaping, traffic simulation, and custom domain names.
• Design, implement, and deploy new security infrastructure, protecting our resources from malicious threat vectors.

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level