Software Development Engineer - AWS Elemental MediaPackage, Elemental - MediaPackage

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design planning delivery and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words were the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers storage networking power and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and were looking for talented people who want to help.

Youll join a diverse team of software hardware and network engineers supply chain specialists security experts operations managers and other vital roles. Youll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And youll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

AWS Elemental is an Amazon Web Services company that combines deep video expertise with the power and scale of the cloud. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join us on our AWS Elemental MediaPackage team where you will help us give our customers the freedom to focus on what matters: transforming ideas into compelling content that captivates viewers.

In this role you will be responsible for building new cloud architectures around AWS Elementals justintime video packaging and origination service AWS Elemental MediaPackage. You will be a technical leader on the team solving complex scaling problems that come with delivering video to millions of viewers over HTTP. Your job is to abstract this complexity and operational burden away from our customers so they can trust that video is delivered reliably to all of their users devices (phones tablets computers TVs).

This role requires outstanding programming skills and a passion for creating robust distributed systems. As a key member of the team you will contribute to all aspects of the software lifecycle: design experimentation implementation and testing. You should be willing to dive deep experiment rapidly and get things done. You should have an entrepreneurial spirit love autonomy know how to deliver and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems. We are looking for leaders!

What youll do:
Design and implement new features from specification to final test
Define and achieve performance metrics and instill the operational practices needed to sustain them
Learn a tremendous amount about modern media technologies
Influence the future direction of our product
Have fun in a challenging but rewarding environment
Make a significant contribution to launching new capabilities in AWS Elemental MediaPackage
Become an expert on AWS tooling and operational practices



About the team
*Why AWS*
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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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