Software Development Engineer II Amazon Prime Video

Job summary
Prime Video is disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a massive library of highquality media and reliable digital delivery. Our services are engineered for high availability maximum reach and cost savings that we can pass on to customers. We enable the world to watch video instantly from any device whether on the road or from the comfort of a living room sofa. Today we deliver Movies TV shows and Live Sports to Windows and Mac PCs portable devices gaming consoles smart phones and smart TVs. We operate in over 250 countries and territories and we aspire to grow a lot.
We are looking for smart motivated Software Development Engineer who can help in building platform for delivering live video events to our customer. If you have experience building largescale highperformance customerfriendly products and are interested in designing multitier services to handle large datasets complex domains and problems at Amazon scale this is the job for you.
Our innovative systems include high efficient and large scale platforms built on Amazons cloud computing infrastructure. For this position you will have a strong background in OO design with a modern programming language. Experience working with web services XML JSON Apache services is desired. Linux system development experience is a plus. Equally important to these specific skills is the ability to multitask quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements learn new systems create reliable/maintainable code and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
You are highlymotivated and thrive in an environment where problems are openended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself your team and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and dont shy away from hard work to reach your goals. You are excited about the opportunity to engage in developing a top notch consumer web application and user experience.

Key job responsibilities
As an engineer in PTS you will help design and develop tooling used to monitor Prime Video content including video on demand scheduled programing and live events world wide across thousands of consumer device types. You will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in device emulation quality of experience measurement and playback operations at scale.

Our team maintains high reliability across our systems have traditionally have had low operational overhead. The systems you design and build will be critical to maintaining the customer experience of Prime Video customers worldwide. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront EC2 S3 DynamoDB Lambda SNS and SQS.

About the team
The team is chartered to design highly stable systems to automate Playback experiences across a full stack of content types. This tooling is used in our live operation centers 24x7 to monitor events in real time by builder teams across Prime Video in critical service pipelines and as a part of the launch of every Tier 1 event on Prime Video. Prime Video is viewed by a massive audience daily and you will help ensure our customers have the highest quality experience.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle WA USA

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
1 years tooling or development work associated with consumer devices (e.g. Android iOS FireTV Web and/or living room devices)

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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.