Sr. Software Development Engineer, Studios Tech, Backlot Source

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are offered on Prime Video Do you want to define the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching Passionate about building owning and operating massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the digital media supply chain Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers If so here is an opportunity tailored for you.
This Software development position with Amazon Prime Video and Studios tech is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem-solving skills has a solid computer science foundation experience of backend design patterns APIs and takes pride in operations excellence.
This role is based in Los Angeles putting you at the intersection of Amazons tech innovation and MGMs century of storytelling excellence.
Join us in building the future of entertainment!

Who we are
The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain which is focused on ordering storing classifying tagging transcoding and managing the life cycle of very large volume of assets right from the creative phase to the final distribution. Our teams product serves as a digital backbone for Amazon MGM Studios which comprise of 10 customer groups spread across 32 locales around the globe. This team maintains the large scale asset storage (100s of PB) and discovery solutions which acts as single pane of glass view of billions of videos audio stems trailers documents and images.

What will you do
You will be responsible to develop/maintain secure scalable low latency and reliable services which handle the copy transfer transcode media info validation auto QC storage optimization semantic search AI based metadata extraction/tagging discoverability and life cycle management of an extremely large volume of media files. You will own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows which seamlessly fits into the PV Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with the internal systems for data exchange/enrichment without adding additional complexity overhead and disruption to the business. Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies for database persistence storage compute and AWS Media Convert for supporting the media transcodes. If you have experience building large-scale high-performance customer-friendly products and are interested in designing and implementing distributed systems to handle large datasets complex domains and problems at Amazon scale this is the job for you.


Key job responsibilities
Lead complex high-visibility technical programs that power the worlds most comprehensive studios technology organization
Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for next-generation media supply chain products.
Partner with engineering teams to build scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of global content data.
Provide mentorship to other engineers on best practices while raising the bar for engineering excellence.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software
Impact Youll Own:
Shape the technical foundation that brings award-winning content to viewers worldwide.
Design and build workflows for the mission-critical digital content lifecycle
Influence across teams to deliver holistic solutions
Own the operational stability of highly reliable digital asset management products.


A day in the life
What You Bring:
Deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems and architecture
Proven track record leading complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders
High Bar in driving operational and engineering excellence strategic thinking and tactical execution
Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior leadership and other engineering teams across broader organization.
Experience scaling teams and mentoring other engineers to force multiple.

About the team
Media Supply Chain team serves as a digital backbone that handles the post production workflows for all of the 1P content produced by Amazon MGM studios. You will be joining an existing 2-pizza team based out of LA which will interact/interface with 4 other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross functional teams in the org.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 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

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.

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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 Culver City - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually