Software Development Engineer Elemental MediaConvert

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AWS Elemental MediaConvert is an Amazon Web Services service that combines deep video expertise with the power and scale of the cloud to help well known content owners and distributors prepare large amounts of content for viewer consumption.

MediaConvert provides video processing as a service and caters to all segments of the industry starting from security camera videos to 4K Ultra High definition HDR video for movies and TV serials.
MediaConvert team is looking for an experienced Software Development Engineering professional who is strong in problem solving passionate about algorithm design has bias for action and is a great team player. Knowledge of video related technologies is a plus but not a requirement.

As a member of the team you will contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design experimentation implementation and automated testing. Your code will process millions of video assets around the world and countless viewers will enjoy the final output. You will be expected to dive deep experiment rapidly and deliver results autonomously.

Join us in developing solutions that give our customers the freedom to focus on what matters: transforming ideas into compelling content that captivates viewers.

Key job responsibilities
Learn how our products work today and where we want to take them in the future
Design and implement new features from specification to final test and automation
Write a lot of highquality code
Work in an agile development environment where the backlog gets prioritized frequently
Have fun in a challenging but rewarding environment

A day in the life
Code! Most of your days will be unscheduled focus time
Attend biweekly team meetings to share updates answer questions and remove blockers
Provide input to questions posed by your team or help investigate customer issues to assist our support team
Participate in code and/or design reviews to provide feedback and ensure the solutions meet our engineering standards and customer needs
Interface with product managers solutions architects support engineers and/or developers on other teams to solve problems and improve the MediaConvert service


About the team
The MediaConvert service processes millions of videos every day. We take a pride in building a resilient scalable a cost efficient service which is used to share stories news lessons and entertainment all across the world. We are an engineering team first and foremost and enjoy the challenge of becoming experts in the video domain. This role is part of our core application team working directly in video processing including video audio captions adsignaling DRM and a wide range of video codecs.

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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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