Sr. Software Development Engineer, Studios Tech, Backlot Source

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video and Studios Tech in Los Angeles seeks an experienced software engineering leader to own scalable media supply chain systems. You will drive architecture, mentor teams, and partner across PV and MGM Studios to deliver high‑quality services at scale.

Join a team operating at Amazon scale, shaping the digital asset management workflows, metadata extraction, and distribution for billions of media assets with a strong emphasis on reliability and operations excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable, low‑latency and reliable services that 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.
• Own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows that seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with internal systems for data exchange/enrichment.
• Leverage the latest AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for media transcodes.
• Design and implement distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Operations excellence

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

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!

About the Asset Discovery Team

The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain that 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 (hundreds of PB) and discovery solutions which act as a single pane of glass view of billions of videos, audio stems, trailers, documents and images.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable, low‑latency and reliable services that 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.
• Own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows that seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with internal systems for data exchange/enrichment.
• Leverage the latest AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for media transcodes.
• Design and implement distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high‑visibility technical programs that power the world's most comprehensive studios 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.

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 achieve multiple goals.

About the Team

The 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 a 2‑pizza team based out of LA, which will interact with four other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross‑functional teams in the organization.

Basic 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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Benefits and Compensation

The base salary range for this position is 168,100.00 – 227,400.00 USD per year. 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 optional 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 at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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