Software Development Engineer Prime Video Ads

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today and were just getting started.

PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We recently launched Prime Videos Ads offering in January 2024 and are continuing to launch new products and features for our customers. In the past we have helped launch Thursday Night Football and CBS All Access (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

As an engineer you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low latency/high throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion for Video on demand. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront EC2 S3 DynamoDB Lambda SNS SQS and internal AWS incubator technologies.

You will need to have an established background in developing customerfacing experiences a strong technical ability great communication skills a motivation to achieve results in a fastpaced environment a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Key job responsibilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience with critical 24x7 systems
Experience with high throughput multithreaded systems
Experience developing web services or other large scale distributed systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have but is not required.
Prior experience managing tier1 services would be a nice to have but is not required

Prime Video Ads teams mission is to build a seamless ad delivery playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We do this by building highly scaled low latency services that fetch ingest stitch and deliver ads using industry leading video ad serving technologies.

PV Ads team owns services for ad ingestion ad stitching and integrates with ad decision systems. Its services handle dynamic transcoding and ad insertions as part of video playback.

The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the live and vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. You will need to have an established background in developing customerfacing experiences a strong technical ability great communication skills a motivation to achieve results in a fastpaced environment a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit https://www.aboutamazon/workplace/employeebenefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.