Senior Backend Engineer – Live Streaming at Scale

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon IVS is seeking a software engineer to design and operate backend services that support millions of concurrent live streams. You will own service directions, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and ensure reliability and security at AWS scale.

The role emphasizes designing scalable systems, reviewing architectures, and driving post‑incident actions while mentoring others. This on‑site position is located in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

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

Mentorship

Go

C/C++

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Live streaming tech

Job description

Amazon IVS is seeking a software engineer to design and operate backend services that support millions of concurrent live streams. You will own service directions, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and ensure reliability and security at AWS scale.

The role emphasizes designing scalable systems, reviewing architectures, and driving post‑incident actions while mentoring others. This on‑site position is located in Seattle, WA.