Cloud Production Platform Engineer for Film & TV

Socket.dev; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s SITC Production Platform Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to bridge traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure. You will enable Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound, QC, Mastering, and Delivery entirely in AWS for productions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

You will translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK, troubleshoot across the full stack, and design secure,

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, distributed software applications 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
• 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

Software design

Education

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

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

CloudFormation

CDK

AWS

Job description

Amazon’s SITC Production Platform Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to bridge traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure. You will enable Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound, QC, Mastering, and Delivery entirely in AWS for productions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

You will translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK, troubleshoot across the full stack, and design secure,