Software Dev Engineer III, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Stream Management

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 Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, built on the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch and trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment.

Our mission: enable developers to build communities around live video. We handle everything from ingest to processing to delivery at global scale, so developers can focus on creating interactive, engaging live experiences for their audiences. Whether you're streaming to tens of millions of concurrent viewers or just getting started, Amazon IVS removes the complexity so developers can move fast.

The IVS Stream Management team builds and operates the distributed systems that coordinate stream sessions end-to-end and keep the underlying fleet healthy under bursty, unpredictable load. As a software engineer on this team, you'll design and build systems that start and manage live streams for millions of viewers worldwide — working on systems that sit behind the customer-facing APIs and make every live stream possible.

Key job 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.

A day in the life

You might start the morning by reviewing operational dashboards for anything anomalous in transcode start rates, then jump into a design review for a proposal to extend one of your services to a new region. Mid‑morning you pair with a teammate on a tricky race condition in stream session teardown. In the afternoon you meet with a partner team to align on a protocol change and write a short doc summarizing the tradeoffs of two capacity‑planning approaches. The work spans distributed systems, live video infrastructure, and cross‑team coordination, and no two days look the same.

About the team

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution from AWS that enables low‑latency and real‑time video experiences for millions of viewers worldwide. We power engaging live experiences for some of the largest customers in the live video space and continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible with interactive video technology.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: Golang, C/C++
• Familiarity with Live Streaming Origination, CDN integration, Caching, and Low latency Video Streaming distribution.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually