Backend Engineer, Live Streaming Infra (II)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is hiring a software engineer for the IVS Stream Management team to design and operate large-scale live streaming services. You will work on end-to-end stream management, shaping backend systems that support millions of viewers.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, PMs, and scientists to deliver reliable, high-performance experiences, with a focus on availability, security, and scalability across AWS services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of one or more services in the Stream Management portfolio; write the design docs and drive them to implementation.
• Work closely with engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Ensure backend systems are highly available, scalable, and secure at AWS scale.
• Apply backend best practices including testing, performance optimization, observability, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with other AWS service teams to integrate shared services and deliver consistent AWS service experiences.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and on-call rotations.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks.
• Lead post-incident investigations for high-severity events in our services; drive the resulting action items to completion.

Skills

3+ years software development

2+ years design/architecture

5+ years large-scale distributed

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is hiring a software engineer for the IVS Stream Management team to design and operate large-scale live streaming services. You will work on end-to-end stream management, shaping backend systems that support millions of viewers.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers, PMs, and scientists to deliver reliable, high-performance experiences, with a focus on availability, security, and scalability across AWS services.