Software Engineer II, Amazon Interactive Video Service

Amazon • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

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
• 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

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

Benefits

• Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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