Sr. Software Development Engineer, Studios Tech, Backlot Source

Amazon; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video and Studios tech is seeking a seasoned software leader to own low-latency, scalable media-supply chain services in Los Angeles. You will design and implement distributed systems for asset management, transcoding, and metadata extraction within the PV/MGM ecosystem.

The role demands deep expertise in large-scale systems, operational excellence, and collaboration across many engineering teams. A strong background in cloud technologies and media workflows is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-visibility technical programs
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for next-gen media supply chain products
• Partner with engineering teams to build scalable solutions for massive global content data
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on best practices
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

Skills

Distributed systems

Architecture design

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

AWS

AWS cloud

Job description

Job ID: 10471210 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are offered on Prime Video? Do you want to define the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the digital media supply chain? Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

This Software development position with Amazon Prime Video and Studios tech is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency, highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem-solving skills, has a solid computer science foundation, experience of backend design patterns, APIs and takes pride in operations excellence.

This role is based in Los Angeles, putting you at the intersection of Amazon's tech innovation and MGM's century of storytelling excellence.

Join us in building the future of entertainment!

Who we are?

The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain which is focused on ordering, storing, classifying, tagging, transcoding and managing the life cycle of very large volume of assets right from the creative phase to the final distribution. Our team’s product serves as a digital backbone for Amazon MGM Studios, which comprise of 10+ customer groups spread across 32 locales around the globe. This team maintains the large scale asset storage (100’s of PB) and discovery solutions which acts as single pane of glass view of billions of videos, audio stems, trailers, documents and images.

What will you do?

You will be responsible to develop/maintain secure, scalable, low latency and reliable services which 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. You will own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows, which seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with the internal systems for data exchange/enrichment, without adding additional complexity, overhead and disruption to the business. Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for supporting the media transcodes. If you have experience building large-scale, high-performance, customer-friendly products and are interested in designing and implementing distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale, this is the job for you.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-visibility technical programs that power the world's most comprehensive studio technology organization
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for next-generation media supply chain products.
• Partner with engineering teams to build scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of global content data.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on best practices while raising the bar for engineering excellence.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

Impact You'll Own:

• Shape the technical foundation that brings award-winning content to viewers worldwide.
• Design and build workflows for the mission-critical digital content lifecycle
• Influence across teams to deliver holistic solutions
• Own the operational stability of highly reliable digital asset management products.

A day in the life

What You Bring:

• Deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed systems and architecture
• Proven track record leading complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders
• High Bar in driving operational and engineering excellence, strategic thinking and tactical execution
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior leadership and other engineering teams across broader organization.
• Experience scaling teams and mentoring other engineers to force multiple.

About the team

Media Supply Chain team serves as a digital backbone that handles the post production workflows for all of the 1P content produced by Amazon MGM studios. You will be joining an existing 2-pizza team based out of LA, which will interact/interface with 4 other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross functional teams in the org.

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, Culver City - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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