Amazon

Software Development Engineer II, Backlot Source

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Culver City, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build innovative products in a large distributed computing environment.
  • Design, implement, maintain, and scale secure, reliable, low-latency backend services and APIs.
  • Develop digital media supply chain capabilities for asset copying, transfer, transcoding, validation, automated quality control, storage, search, metadata extraction, tagging, discoverability, and lifecycle management.
  • Design configurable ingest, approval, and distribution workflows integrated with Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, and internal systems.
  • Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to bring products and services to market.
  • Work in an agile environment and deliver high-quality software.
  • Apply design patterns, reliability, scaling, and operational excellence practices to new and existing systems.
  • Use Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks, and AWS CDK to design and code solutions.

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.
  • Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: experience in the entertainment industry.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $143,700 to $194,400 annually, plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
  • Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage, with supplemental life plan options.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Based in Los Angeles County, California, with the team based in Los Angeles/Culver City.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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