Cloud Platform Engineer - Media Production

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City seeks a Software Development Engineer to bridge media production workflows with cloud infrastructure. You will build cloud-native capabilities for post‑production tasks (Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform) and translate complex workflows into scalable infrastructure using CloudFormation or CDK.

The role emphasizes securing infrastructure, designing high-throughput pipelines, and collaborating with PM and Production Technology teams to deliver end-to-end

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 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

C#

C++

Java

Perl

OO Design

Distributed Systems

Education

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

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Culver City seeks a Software Development Engineer to bridge media production workflows with cloud infrastructure. You will build cloud-native capabilities for post‑production tasks (Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform) and translate complex workflows into scalable infrastructure using CloudFormation or CDK.

The role emphasizes securing infrastructure, designing high-throughput pipelines, and collaborating with PM and Production Technology teams to deliver end-to-end