Software Development Engineer, Live Sports - Prime Video

Overview

Software Development Engineer, Live Sports - Prime Video

Job ID: 2938872 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Want to change the way people watch Live Sports? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers ranging from new graduates to seasoned architects building software using the latest AWS technologies? Are you looking for an inclusive team, where you feel safe to be yourself, to share your ideas openly, to experiment, fail and learn, and where you help make decisions that shape the team’s path forward? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

We are the Prime Video Live Events team, revolutionize the way our customers search, discover and enjoy live events from sports, to music, to breaking news and political debates. In September 2018 we launched our first full-scale live streaming experience to all of our world-wide Prime customers with NFL’s Thursday Night Football. We are expanding and looking for engineers to build innovative solutions for customers to discover engaging and personalized live content to enjoy. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video, and the live streaming experience for customers everywhere.

Our team is building a wide variety of services from low-latency, high-TPS services that control the lifecycle of live events and help customers discover live or upcoming games on a variety of devices including Alexa and to engage customers on Prime Video content offline and through social-media platforms. If you’re a strong engineer, there’s a home for you in Prime Video Live Events. Our leaders are great teachers, our engineers are world-class, and our products are fun.

Responsibilities

What will you do?

• Help in building personalized discovery experience for thousands of live streaming events available world-wide using technologies like machine learning.
• Design and implement distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale.
• Work with a broad set of technologies to build customer-focused, high-performance products leveraging AWS cloud technologies (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, CloudFront).
• Contribute to an architecture that supports billions of requests from millions of Prime Video users.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver scalable, reliable services for live events across devices (including Alexa) and offline engagement.

If you’re excited about helping to build the future of live event streaming or just want to have fun creating something you can be proud to show your family and friends, reach out. We’d love to chat.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's 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 Company’s 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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