System Development Engineer II, Multimedia

Do you want to own next generation technology solve new problems that didnt exist before and have the ability to see the impact of your successes
Amazon is growing and we need SDEs/SDETs who move fast are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems and have a strong will to get things done. SDEs/SDETs at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world.
At Amazon an SDE/SDET can expect to design flexible and scalable solutions and work on some of the most complex challenges in large-scale computing by utilizing your skills in data structures algorithms and object oriented programming. Coming to Amazon gives you the opportunity to work on a small development team in one of our many organizations; Amazon Web Services ecommerce Services Kindle Marketplace Operations Platform Technologies and Retail.


Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a talented detail-oriented and enthusiastic System Development Engineer who is passionate about quality and is enthusiastic about new digital products. The person chosen for this position will have the opportunity to contribute their creative ideas and energy to our group. Responsibilities include research design implementation documentation and maintenance of new and existing systems. The creation of software services and tools to drive the software development process towards higher quality. As a Software Engineer you will take part in the implementation and customization of software working closely with application teams to delivering the audio/video components within FireOS. The development will be from the concept stage to the launch stage and ensuring the highest level of quality for your deliverable.

In This Role You Will
You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design architecture and implementation of next generation products used every day by people you know.
Be responsible for design and development for multimedia initiatives and feature development
Investigate prototype and deliver new and innovative system solutions .

A day in the life
Using a combination of open source and proprietary technologies we build next generation devices for media consumption whether mobile or in the home. As a strong customer advocate you will help own media technologies and quality end to end (E2E). You will work with internal and external partners to deliver the best in class devices and will research new technologies develop new tools and help define processes to build the media stack of next generation devices.

About the team
Team manages Veag OS and Linux/GStreamer based Multimedia/Streaming Framework Development team. Primary focus of the team is to implement new features and enhancements within Application/Middleware framework of different Media Player Engines from Linux and in-house Amazon Media Player as per the requirements from different product teams like Kindle Fire Tablets Amazon FireTV Amazon Echo Amazon Music/Video Alexa and Smart Home devices.

- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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