Want to change the way people watch Live Sports Passionate about building owning and operating massively scalable systems Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers ranging from new graduates to seasoned architects building software using the latest AWS technologies Are you looking for an inclusive team where you feel safe to be yourself to share your ideas openly to experiment fail and learn and where you help make decisions that shape the teams path forward If so here is an opportunity tailored for you.
Who we are
We are the Prime Video Live Events team revolutionize the way our customers search discover and enjoy live events from sports to music to breaking news and political debates. In September 2018 we launched our first fullscale live streaming experience to all of our worldwide Prime customers with NFLs Thursday Night Football. In just a year we delivered multigame watching experience to our Prime Video customers in UK for English Premier League . That was just the start. We are expanding and looking for engineers to build innovative solutions for customer to discover engaging and personalized live content to enjoy. This is a transformative opportunity the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience for customers everywhere. Our team is building a wide variety of services from lowlatency highTPS services that control the lifecycle of live events and help customers discover live or upcoming games on variety of devices including Alexa and to engage customer on Prime Video content offline and through socialmedia platforms. If youre a strong engineer theres a home for you in Prime Video Live Events. Our leaders are great teachers our engineers are worldclass and our products are fun.
What will you do
We are looking for smart motivated Software Development Engineers who can help in building personalized discovery experience for thousands of live streaming events available worldwide using technologies like machine learning. If you have experience building largescale highperformance customerfriendly products and are interested in designing and implementing distributed systems to handle large datasets complex domains and problems at Amazon scale this is the job for you. This is an exciting role offering a customerobsessed engineer to learn and use a broad array of technologies to make a real impact. Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies including EC2 S3 DynamoDB Kinesis and Cloudfront in supporting billions of requests from millions of Prime Video users.
If youre excited about helping to build the future of live event streaming or just want to have fun creating something you can be proud to show your family and friends reach out. Wed love to chat.
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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.