Cloud-Native Software Engineer – Media Production Platform

Fairweather, LLC; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Culver City is seeking a Software Development Engineer to bridge traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure. You will work with AWS services to solve scale challenges impacting award‑winning productions, spanning Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound, QC, Mastering, and Delivery.

Join a team that builds and maintains cloud‑native infrastructure enabling productions to collaborate seamlessly in AWS, with emphasis on security, reliability, and end‑to‑end

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.
• 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

Software development

Design/architecture

Object Oriented Design

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon in Culver City is seeking a Software Development Engineer to bridge traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure. You will work with AWS services to solve scale challenges impacting award‑winning productions, spanning Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound, QC, Mastering, and Delivery.

Join a team that builds and maintains cloud‑native infrastructure enabling productions to collaborate seamlessly in AWS, with emphasis on security, reliability, and end‑to‑end