Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports

Love sports Want to change the world Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming immersive interactive features and exclusive access to some of the worlds most loved sports properties - including the NFL NBA English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer Rolland-Garros (French Open) the US Open and more. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And were building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Sports team is a single-threaded-owner uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire Prime Video stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers. If this sounds like the type of experience youd like to help build - apply here and lets chat!

Who we are:
We are deeply connected with the idea that live sports events are fundamentally different: there is only one shot at delivering the moment until it is forever lost. Our mission is to make sure that our customers never miss a single moment of the sports they love. To do this we need to deliver best-in-class live sports infrastructure testing monitoring and operations to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences at scale. Our team engineers for speed quality availability and scale. As Prime Video has grown weve increased the depth and breadth of video products we support with a corresponding increase in the associated size and complexity of our engineering activity and the load on our services. Our goal is to adapt our architecture to maintain and improve our velocity of delivery for customers in the face of these changes and for our services to be on and error-free 24/7 especially for high-profile exclusive content. With AI as a transformative force were at an inflection point that enables us to unlock new opportunities in predictive analytics automated defect analysis and mitigation and automated operations that were previously beyond our reach.

What were looking for:
We are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer thats excited to build innovative technologies that define the future of live streaming. Successful candidates for this position demonstrate ability to multi-task quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements learn new systems create reliable/maintainable code find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally. If you are the one thats excited about entrepreneurial thinking creating technology solutions for complex problems we want to hear from you.

What you will do here:
You will provide technical leadership and vision to the experiences and services teams. You will ensure that the best engineering practices are followed and that our software is designed to be responsive reliable and maintainable. You will work closely with other teams in Prime Video and Amazon to architect solutions that will scale to hundreds of millions of customers.

What you will get from us:
A great team to work with and the chance to build a top tier services at a proven top tier company. You will get a startup like culture with the stability of an established industry leader. You will get support and resources from some of the smartest people in the industry to continue learning.

Key job responsibilities
1. Define design and implement multi-tier distributed services and customer experiences
2. Be involved in designing implementing and testing of major features
3. Estimate engineering effort plan implementation and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality performance scalability reliability and adherence to development goals and principles.
4. Effectively collaborate in a fast-paced environment with multiple teams in large organization (software development QA Project/Release Management Build and Release etc).

- 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
- 3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) 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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