Senior Backend Engineer, Global Live Video Streaming

Amazon Data Services, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineer to design and operate backend services for Amazon IVS, enabling low-latency live video experiences for millions of viewers.

You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and scientists to deliver robust systems, drive architecture, and ensure high availability, security, and performance at AWS scale. Leadership and mentoring are encouraged within cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Familiarity with live video concepts: common streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of one or more services in the Stream Management portfolio; write the design docs, socialize them across IVS and adjacent teams, 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

Software development

Leadership / mentoring

Live video concepts

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Golang

C/C++

Live Streaming Origination

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Seattle seeks an experienced Software Engineer to design and operate backend services for Amazon IVS, enabling low-latency live video experiences for millions of viewers.

You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and scientists to deliver robust systems, drive architecture, and ensure high availability, security, and performance at AWS scale. Leadership and mentoring are encouraged within cross-functional teams.