Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Ads Channels

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today.

PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We launched Prime Videos Ads offering in January 2024 and are continuing to launch new products and features for our the past we have helped launch NBA MLB Peacock and FOX One (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the video on demands and live streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

As an engineer you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low-latency/high-throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide operating at a scale where a single live event can reach tens of millions of concurrent viewers with zero tolerance for disruption. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront EC2 S3 DynamoDB Lambda SNS SQS and more.

You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences a strong technical ability great communication skills a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Key job responsibilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with critical 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput multi-threaded systems
- Experience developing web services or other large scale distributed systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have but is not required.
- Prior experience managing tier-1 services would be a nice to have but is not required

Prime Video Ads teams mission is to build a seamless ad delivery playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We do this by building highly scaled low latency services that fetch ingest stitch and deliver ads using industry leading video ad serving technologies.

PV Ads team owns services for ad ingestion ad stitching and integrates with ad decision systems. Its services handle dynamic transcoding and ad insertions as part of video playback.

The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the live and vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences a strong technical ability great communication skills a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.


About the team
The Prime Video Ads teams mission is to build a seamless ad delivery playback and reporting experience across all supported devices. We accomplish this through highly scaled services that fetch ingest stitch and deliver ads using industry-leading video ad serving technologies. As the PV Ads Channels team we focus on enabling dynamic ads insertion and prioritizing features enablers for the Channels partners. Each partner brings unique configurations traffic patterns and operational requirements.

- 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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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 WA SEATTLE - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually