Software Development Engineer, Android Video Player

The Prime Video Android Player team is looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to help reinvent how customers experience live sports such as NFL Thursday Night Football English Premier League MLB TV NBA League Pass and more!

The Android Player team designs implements and maintains high-performance software that powers video playback on millions of Android and Amazon Fire/Echo devices. We are responsible for the playback experience quality and performance from the time you press play on an Prime Video title. Our software is designed to work seamlessly across a variety of devices/playing conditions and in a multitude of content consumption contexts including live streaming on-demand and ad-supported playback.

Key job responsibilities
You will be contributing to our teams technical strategy designing and developing reusable object-oriented and performant software utilizing well-known patterns (MVC Composite Delegate Protocol) that may span multiple platforms form factors and resource challenges.

You will be exposed to the best experiences in mobile and multimedia software development as well as cutting-edge video streaming technologies such as audio/video codecs (AVC HEVC AAC AC-3) DRM (Widevine FairPlay PlayReady) media frameworks (gstreamer openMAX iOS AV) streaming technologies (DASH HLS SmoothStreaming) and media container formats.

A day in the life
As a software engineer on the Prime Video team your day starts with diving into hands-on coding and technical problem-solving. Youre not just writing codeyoure helping to shape the architecture of complex systems that millions of people rely on every day. One of the most rewarding aspects of your role is seeing your work come to life when friends and family use Prime Video to watch their favorite shows and live sports.

Your primary focus is on designing and maintaining the components that power every title on Prime Video. This involves creating highly performant and low-latency systems that ensure users can start streaming their content with just a click. The challenges are unique especially when it comes to managing the sheer scale of requests you handle daily.
Collaboration is a big part of your role. You spend time working with a cross-functional team to align on technical strategies and define your long-term roadmap. Its exciting to influence decisions that will impact the future of Prime Video. Throughout the day you switch between deep focus on coding and brainstorming sessions with teammates to solve tough problems.

Beyond the technical work you also play a key role in mentoring junior engineers. Sharing your knowledge and seeing others grow is incredibly fulfilling. Youre always encouraged to push the boundaries of whats possible and you have the freedom to explore new ideas that can elevate the service to the next level.

At the end of the day you know that the work you do directly contributes to a world-class viewing experience for millions of Prime Video users and thats a great feeling.

About the team
Our mission is to build and operate the most innovative video streaming technology stack that provides the best customer-centric streaming experience for VOD and Live globally and supports all business use cases (subscription transactional ad-supported). We invent and implement technologies that deliver a flawless engaging streaming experience for our customers using the fewest bits possible. We commit to our values of respect and integrity by creating a work environment that is supportive diverse inspiring and inclusive.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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 job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.