Software Engineer II, Amazon Interactive Video Service

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that makes low-latency or real-time video available to millions of viewers around the world allowing you to create engaging live experiences. We serve some of the largest customers in the live-video space and are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible with live video technology.

Youll join a diverse team of software and network engineers product managers security experts 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.

About the Role

This position is on the Video Edge team responsible for the ingestion from hundreds of thousands of live video creators as well as the distribution worldwide to millions of viewers. As an engineer on this team you will be focused on designing building and maintaining robust scalable systems that enable our customers to ingest and watch live video. If youre excited by the idea of building backend distributed systems that operate at a worldwide scale and have an interest in live video this position is for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Partner with data analysts product managers technical leads and other engineers to design develop launch and operate distributed systems at scale.
- Help define the future of the Amazon IVS video stack including traffic shaping infrastructure deployment and infrastructure automation.
- Build novel video features to improve the interactivity of live video streaming
- Collaborate with our team and partner teams and fostering a shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions
- Design implement and deploy new live video features including dynamic slates and video advertisements
- Design implement and deploy new CDN features such as intelligest traffic shaping traffic simulation and custom domain names.
- Design implement and deploy new security infrastructure protecting our resources from malicious threat vectors.

About the team
IVS processes a massive amount of live video channels and distributes them using the largest dedicated live video CDN in the world delivering over 25Tbps to more than 5 million concurrent addition to serving Twitch traffic our video platform is offered as Amazon Interactive Video Service an AWS service that allows the creation of a live video streaming platform with only a few lines of code. Engineers with our Video Team work across a range of areas including ingest transcoding and distribution with the lowest latency high-scale HLS distribution system in the world.

- 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
- 2 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Cupertino - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually