Software Engineer II

Amazon•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

This position is on the Video Edge team, responsible for the ingestion of hundreds of thousands or live video content, as well as the distribution worldwide to millions of viewers. As an engineer on this team, you wlll 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 San Francisco, CA, or Seattle, WA.

Requirements

3+ years of software development experience
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
Experience building backend services at scale with technologies such as Golang and AWS.
Background in deploying and operating services in the AWS ecosystem at scale
Background in media protocols (audio / video)
Experience building highly available and resilient systems
Experience building distributed systems at scale
Background in computer networking

Responsibilities

Partner with data analysts, product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate distributed systems at scale.
Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact