Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Ads Channels

Amazon.com Services LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking an engineer to build scalable, low-latency video ad delivery services for Prime Video Ads. You will work on ingestion, stitching, and delivery of ads across live and VOD streams, collaborating with teams and partners to deliver seamless ad experiences to millions of viewers worldwide.

The role emphasizes strong problem solving, communications, and creativity in a fast-paced environment, with opportunities to influence how customers experience streaming video

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop low-latency, high-throughput distributed services for ad insertion and delivery.
• Collaborate with ad decision systems and partners to power streaming ads.
• Build customer-facing experiences within Prime Video ads ecosystem.

Skills

Software development experience

System design/architecture

Programming language knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

CloudFront

EC2

S3

DynamoDB

Lambda

SQS

SNS

Job description

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
• Experience developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems, that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have, but is not required.
• Prior experience managing tier-1 services would be a nice to have, but is not required

Prime Video Ads team's mission is to build a seamless ad delivery, playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We do this by building highly scaled, low latency services that fetch, ingest, stitch and deliver ads using industry leading video ad serving technologies.

PV Ads team owns services for ad ingestion, ad stitching and integrates with ad decision systems. Its services handle dynamic transcoding and ad insertions as part of video playback.

The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the live and vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today.

PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We launched Prime Video's Ads offering in January 2024 and are continuing to launch new products and features for our customers. In the past we have helped launch NBA, MLB, Peacock and FOX One (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the video on demands and live streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

As an engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low-latency/high-throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide, operating at a scale where a single live event can reach tens of millions of concurrent viewers with zero tolerance for disruption. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS and more.

You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Prime Video Ads team's mission is to build a seamless ad delivery, playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We accomplish this through highly scaled services that fetch, ingest, stitch, and deliver ads using industry-leading video ad serving technologies.

As the PV Ads Channels team, we focus on enabling dynamic ads insertion and prioritizing features enablers for the Channels partners. Each partner brings unique configurations, traffic patterns, and operational requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

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

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 i