Cloud-Native SDE for Post-Production Platform

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help migrate post‑production workflows to the cloud. You will design cloud‑native infrastructure for Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound and Delivery, enabling productions to run entirely on AWS.

You will translate complex workflows into infrastructure‑as‑code, collaborate with Product Management, and build secure, scalable solutions while improving throughput and reliability for creative teams

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
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Responsibilities

• Build new cloud-native capabilities for VFX rendering and management, sound mixing, QC, mastering, delivery, and remote production workflows
• Improve and scale existing Editorial, Dailies, Color, and Conform workflows supporting active productions
• Translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK
• Troubleshoot production-impacting issues across the full stack—from network configurations to application-level bugs—diving as deep as needed to unblock creative teams
• Design and implement solutions using AWS compute, storage, and networking services optimized for high-throughput media workloads
• Build secure infrastructure following AWS best practices for encryption (at-rest and in-transit), IAM policies, VPC design, and authentication mechanisms
• Collaborate with Product Management and internal Production Technology teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Automate operational tasks and build self-service tools that empower production teams

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

OOP design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help migrate post‑production workflows to the cloud. You will design cloud‑native infrastructure for Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound and Delivery, enabling productions to run entirely on AWS.

You will translate complex workflows into infrastructure‑as‑code, collaborate with Product Management, and build secure, scalable solutions while improving throughput and reliability for creative teams