Software Development Engineer Amazon Music

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans artists and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts concert livestreams to artist merch Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode and top adfree podcasts included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited ondemand access to 100 million songs including millions in HD Ultra HD and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexaenabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans artists and creators on a global scale. Learn more at Music Search team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join a team of passionate engineers and scientists building innovative technology that helps millions of customers discover and enjoy music. You will work on largescale distributed systems search data platforms and machine learningpowered services to enhance how users search for and engage with music.

You will work with petabytes of data contribute to scalable architectures and directly impact the experience of Amazon Music customers worldwide.

We solve some of the hardest challenges in real time streaming big data processing and data analytics on technologies like AWS Kinesis SQS/SNS Lambda Apache Spark S3 CloudWatch and various other internal Amazon tools. We are looking for a highlymotivated engineers to help turn Amazon Musics data into an information advantage. We are a team of rockstars and driven engineers.



Key job responsibilities
Youll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue ambitious longterm research with many petabytes of data work on problems that havent been solved before quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers and publish your research. Youll see the work you do directly improve the experience of Amazon Music customers on Alexa/Echo mobile and web.

A day in the life
Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on highly consumerfacing products where every single team member is a critical voice in the decisionmaking process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune500 company within the atmosphere of a startup. Welcome to Amazon Music where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited Prime Music and so much more.

About the team
Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features new directions in music streaming and customer engagement. We are looking fornew team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development marketing design ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming team is focused on building a personalized curated and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover upandcoming artists while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale spanning our music apps web player and voiceforward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their daytoday lives.
If you love the challenges that come with realtime streaming distributed processing operational monitoring timely analysis and enjoy working with other engineers on datadriven business problems then this role is for you. You are a talented enthusiastic and detailoriented software developer who wants to work on projects that require innovative thinking deep technical problem solving building trust and mentoring other engineers. You value datadriven decision making and understand that the foundation of good decisions is good data. Most importantly you are an expert in developing highly scalable and faulttolerant services and have some experience working with behavioral time series data.

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 noninternship professional software development experience

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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.