Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
We obsess over Prime Video Sports customers having a flawless experience. Sports happen in real time, and any time missed due to an issue during an event can never be given back. We seek to deliver the high quality experience our customers demand from the time any customer opens Prime Video until the end of each customer’s live event playback experience. We seek to create insights, tooling, and mechanisms to close existing gaps, identify new gaps as they appear, and remediate as quickly as possible.
Key job responsibilities
Prime Video is rapidly creating new experiences by bringing the biggest live events to our global base of customers. Our teams are known for building the future of how people watch movies and TV shows, and with our recent launches of NFL Thursday Night Football, MLB TV, NBA league pass, ATP Tennis, and many more, we are bringing our innovation to Live events around the world.
We are looking for smart, motivated Software Development Engineer who can help in building our platform for delivering live video events to our customer. If you have experience building large-scale, high-performance, customer-centric products and are interested in designing multi-tier services to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale, this is the job for you.
Our innovative systems include high efficient and large scale platforms built on Amazon's AWS cloud computing infrastructure. For this position you will have a strong background in OO design with Java/C++. Experience working with web services, XML, JSON, and GraphQL is desired. Linux system development experience is a plus. Equally important to these specific skills is the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.
You are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself, your team and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and don’t shy away from hard work to reach your goals. You are excited about the opportunity to engage in developing a top notch consumer web application and user experience.
A day in the life
You will be building tools and services that work horizontally across Prime Video Sports to ensure high customer availability. This will include identification of gaps and the tools to plug those gaps, including full-stack software design and development. You will collaborate with other engineers and managers to design services which meet key business needs and scale to the size of Prime Video data. You will prioritize data-driven decision making, taking initiative to collect data and derive insights supporting engineering design decisions.
About the team
We are friendly, open, and collaborative. We work horizontally across Prime Video and interact with a lot of other teams. We leverage each others strengths and welcome opportunities to learn from each other.
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
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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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.