Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of premium films, live sports, TV series, and award-winning original content. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 250 territories worldwide.

As a senior member of the team, you will spend your time as a hands-on engineer and a technical leader. You will play a key role in defining the architecture for software using a wide range of technologies, programming languages and systems. You will be given the freedom to explore your own ideas with the reward of seeing your code raise the bar for millions of Amazon customers worldwide, including your own family and friends.

The Playback Services team designs, implements, and operates the APIs used to play every title on Prime Video. This provides the unique challenge of creating complex, highly-available, low latency systems ensuring Prime Video customers are able to stream their content every time a play button is pressed.

Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies including EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and CloudFront in supporting billions of requests from millions of Prime Video users.

Are you inspired to develop and launch new products? Apply now to shape and influence the Prime Video experience for millions around the world.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with distributed system design
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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