Senior Software Engineer - Scalable Media Asset Platform

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

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Job summary

Amazon Prime Video and Studios Tech in Los Angeles seeks an experienced software engineering leader to own scalable media supply chain systems. You will drive architecture, mentor teams, and partner across PV and MGM Studios to deliver high‑quality services at scale.

Join a team operating at Amazon scale, shaping the digital asset management workflows, metadata extraction, and distribution for billions of media assets with a strong emphasis on reliability and operations excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one 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

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable, low‑latency and reliable services that handle the copy, transfer, transcode, media info validation, auto‑QC, storage optimization, semantic search, AI‑based metadata extraction/tagging, discoverability and life‑cycle management of an extremely large volume of media files.
• Own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows that seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with internal systems for data exchange/enrichment.
• Leverage the latest AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for media transcodes.
• Design and implement distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Operations excellence

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Amazon Prime Video and Studios Tech in Los Angeles seeks an experienced software engineering leader to own scalable media supply chain systems. You will drive architecture, mentor teams, and partner across PV and MGM Studios to deliver high‑quality services at scale.

Join a team operating at Amazon scale, shaping the digital asset management workflows, metadata extraction, and distribution for billions of media assets with a strong emphasis on reliability and operations excellence.