Systems Development Engineer II - Live and On Demand Video Delivery, Prime Video Delivery Technology

- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience in at least one of the following areas: Content Delivery Networks, Large-Scale Networking, Cloud Infrastructure Management.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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.
As a System Development Engineer on our team, you will define the technical architecture and build systems that serve billions of requests per day, petabytes of video content every day, with ultra-low latency design, high reliability and low operational overhead. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, and internal AWS incubator technologies

Successful candidates have a solid background in distributed system design, service-oriented architecture, network architecture, and video streaming technologies. They have experience owning and maintaining highly-available, mission-critical systems. Experience is preferred in large-scale networking, CDNs, streaming technologies, and massive scale systems. Equally important is the ability to multi-task, invent, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems. We’re building a next generation intelligent content traffic routing platform and are looking for technology leaders to help make that vision a reality. Message me to learn more about our amazing team!

About Prime Video:
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Road House, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, and The Idea of You; licensed fan favorites Dawson’s Creek and IF; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including Thursday Night Football, WNBA, and NWSL, and acclaimed sports documentaries including Bye Bye Barry and Federer; and programming from partners such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll, and MGM+ via Prime Video add-on subscriptions, as well as more than 500 free ad-supported (FAST) Channels. Prime members in the U.S. can share a variety of benefits, including Prime Video, by using Amazon Household. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles, including blockbusters such as Challengers and The Fall Guy, via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy content such as Jury Duty and Bosch: Legacy free with ads on Freevee. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favorite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit www.amazon.com/primevideo.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!


Key job responsibilities
Ownership: Work on real world problems at a global scale, delight millions of customers with high quality playback experience, and own end-to-end production systems and its long term architecture. You get to learn the inner workings of an agile team, what it means to own projects and milestones, and how to get things done in Amazon. You will influence the direction of our technology impacting all Prime Video customers on thousands of device types worldwide.

Nature of Work: Design flexible and scalable solutions to real world customer challenges, work on complex engineering problems in large-scale computing utilizing experience in content delivery networks and enterprise-scale networking. You will have a solid support network of Senior and Principal Engineers, that help you be successful in the day-to-day and in the long-term.

A day in the life
Team: An opportunity to influence the video delivery engineering team, building secure, reliable, and scalable features. You will work with an energetic team to maintain and enhance a system that delivers prime video live and on-demand content to millions of delighted customers world-wide. You would enjoy working with peers that get along well with each other, have fun together, and genuinely care about helping each other grow professionally.

Mentoring: Collaborate with Principal and Senior Engineers with deep knowledge in the Playback and Delivery technology domains. Apply the lessons learned to mentor peers & junior engineers. You will have the opportunity expand your horizons, mentoring engineers across the organization and expanding your influence as a technical leader. With an open-minded team such as ours, you will have an eager-to-learn unit of peers with whom you get to grow mutually.

About the team
Customers love Prime Video for the wide selection of media titles and the value for money it offers. We make it easy, convenient & secure to deliver on-demand and live media content to Amazon customers. To make this all happen, we own and build mission critical services with security and low latency at its core. Our engineers work on systems that form the underpinnings of all media delivery in Amazon, and solve complex engineering problems with broad customer impact.

We are the underpinnings of all of Amazon Video. We own the complex and challenging action of delivering every fragment of video that Prime Video streams to our customers at the highest possible quality. We do everything that enables the Watch Now button to deliver a smooth playback experience to over 100 million customers across a variety of devices and content types. We run services that handle billions of requests per day, exabytes of video content downloaded every day, with high reliability and low operational overhead, offering a latency experience of 1ms or less.