Senior Backend Engineer - Live Video Streaming

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on incentives

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon IVS (Amazon Interactive Video Service) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, designed to handle scalable, low-latency experiences for millions of viewers. As a software engineer on the Stream Management team, you will design and build backend systems that start and manage live streams, ensuring high availability and security across regions.

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver reliable customer experiences, participate in architecture

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of one or more services in the Stream Management portfolio; write design docs and drive implementation.
• Work 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.
• 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 and drive action items to completion.

Skills

Golang

C/C++

Live video streaming

Mentorship

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CDN integration

Live streaming protocols

Job description

Amazon IVS (Amazon Interactive Video Service) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, designed to handle scalable, low-latency experiences for millions of viewers. As a software engineer on the Stream Management team, you will design and build backend systems that start and manage live streams, ensuring high availability and security across regions.

Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver reliable customer experiences, participate in architecture