Software Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane
Amazon6 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop intuitive user interfaces for the Amazon IVS Console using React and modern web technologies.
- Design and develop scalable backend services, public APIs, and distributed systems for configuring, orchestrating, and managing live-video resources.
- Build backend systems using TypeScript, Go, or similar modern programming languages.
- Define and maintain infrastructure as code, primarily using AWS CDK.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX designers, applied scientists, and AWS teams to deliver customer experiences and shared-service integrations.
- Ensure systems are highly available, scalable, secure, observable, and performant at AWS scale.
- Apply engineering best practices for testing, code quality, performance optimization, metrics, alarms, automation, and runbooks.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture and design reviews, and on-call rotations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies.
- Experience with both frontend and backend development.
- Experience building backend services with Go or similar modern programming languages.
- Experience designing user interfaces with multilingual support in mind and applying frontend security best practices.
- Preferred: 4+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: familiarity with live-video concepts, streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs.
- Preferred: experience implementing AWS services in distributed computing environments.
- Preferred: experience with NoSQL data stores such as DynamoDB and Redis.
- Preferred: experience with UX design.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon compensation package.
- The listed base salary range is location-dependent across San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Seattle.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.