Software Engineer, Video Security & Optics

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Optics is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and operate core video services powering video streaming, recording, and camera management for 300,000+ cameras worldwide. You will design, develop, and maintain production services across cloud and edge environments, collaborating with teams across data center security, security operations, analytics, and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, code quality, and operational excellence, with opportunities to work on

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.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy features across nine (9) production video services including cloud-based streaming, continuous recording, on-premises recording, camera lifecycle management, and image extraction.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in a production environment serving security-critical workloads.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for video infrastructure across all regions.
• Collaborate with customer groups spanning Data Center Security, Security Operations Centers, Analytics, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to architecture decisions across cloud and edge computing, working with services spanning AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS, EC2, Kinesis) and embedded applications running on camera hardware.
• Drive automation to reduce operational burden. Every feature must reduce the number of humans required to onboard or troubleshoot a site.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operational readiness reviews.

Skills

Software development

Design patterns

Distributed systems

OO design

C# / C++ / Java

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

Video streaming tech

Camera protocols (RTSP/ONVIF)

Job description

Amazon Optics is seeking a Software Development Engineer to build and operate core video services powering video streaming, recording, and camera management for 300,000+ cameras worldwide. You will design, develop, and maintain production services across cloud and edge environments, collaborating with teams across data center security, security operations, analytics, and infrastructure.

The role emphasizes on-call rotations, code quality, and operational excellence, with opportunities to work on