Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Development Engineer in a dynamic team focused on leveraging big data to enhance user experiences. This role involves tackling exciting challenges in real-time streaming and distributed processing, where your expertise will directly impact how an innovative audio entertainment service engages with fans and artists globally. You will work with state-of-the-art technologies and contribute to building resilient and secure platforms. If you're passionate about data-driven decision-making and enjoy mentoring others, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in system design or architecture.
• 3+ years of professional software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and fault-tolerant services for real-time data processing.
• Collaborate with engineers on data-driven business problems.

Skills

Software Development

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Distributed Processing

Real-time Streaming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS Kinesis

Apache Spark

S3

CloudWatch

Lambda

Job description

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music

Job ID: 2915155 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.

About the team

At Amazon Music, big data is fueling the growth of our business. The Music Privacy & Compliance team is at the forefront of this growth with platforms and services for facilitating and enabling consumer data privacy. Our team’s mission is to enable Amazon Music teams to proactively respond to consumer privacy laws through large-scale, big data processing workflows. Our systems and workflows focus on building resilient, multi-tenant, secure, and extensible tools and platforms using state-of-the-art technologies. We work on some of the hardest challenges in real-time streaming, big data processing, and data analytics on technologies like AWS Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Lambda, Apache Spark, S3, CloudWatch, and various other internal Amazon tools. We are looking for highly-motivated engineers to help turn Amazon Music’s data into an information advantage. We are a team of rockstars and driven engineers.

If you love the challenges that come with real-time streaming, distributed processing, operational monitoring, timely analysis, and enjoy working with other engineers on data-driven business problems, then this role is for you. You are a talented, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented software developer who wants to work on projects that require innovative thinking, deep technical problem solving, building trust, and mentoring other engineers. You value data-driven decision making and understand that the foundation of good decisions is good data. Most importantly, you are an expert in developing highly scalable and fault-tolerant services and have some experience working with behavioral time series data.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
2. Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
2. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.