Senior Real-Time Video Systems Engineer

Amazon

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 193,000 - 262,000

Full time

48 hours ago
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Job summary

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) seeks a Software Dev Engineer III for its Real Time Video team. You will design and build real-time, sub-second video distribution infrastructure at massive scale, working deep in the stack to ensure low latency and high reliability for millions of viewers.

You will mentor other engineers, participate in design reviews, and drive architecture decisions for next-generation streaming protocols, including MoQ, while collaborating across teams to balance

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming in at least one language (Scala/Java/Python/C/C++/Go).
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture for new or existing systems.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
  • Deep understanding of WebRTC architecture and media negotiation.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize high-performance WebRTC distribution components with sub-second latency for millions of viewers.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve real-time media delivery architecture balancing scale and cost.
  • Contribute to protocol design for low-latency transport mechanisms (MoQ and beyond).
  • Identify bottlenecks via profiling and experiments; optimize CPU, memory, and network usage.
  • Mentor junior engineers and participate in on-call rotations and design reviews.

Skills

WebRTC
Low-latency systems
Mentorship / tech lead
Distributed systems
Programming language proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) seeks a Software Dev Engineer III for its Real Time Video team. You will design and build real-time, sub-second video distribution infrastructure at massive scale, working deep in the stack to ensure low latency and high reliability for millions of viewers.

You will mentor other engineers, participate in design reviews, and drive architecture decisions for next-generation streaming protocols, including MoQ, while collaborating across teams to balance

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