2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of one or more Stream Management services and drive designs through implementation.
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, secure backend systems for live-stream sessions.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and AWS service teams to deliver integrated customer experiences.
- Apply testing, performance optimization, observability, maintainable coding, automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture and design reviews, and on-call rotations.
- Lead post-incident investigations for high-severity service events and drive corrective actions to completion.
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Have 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- Have 5+ years of leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling concerns.
- Have experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Be familiar with live video concepts, common streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: 5+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using Golang or C/C++.
- Preferred: familiarity with live streaming origination, CDN integration, caching, and low-latency video streaming distribution.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D coverage, an EAP, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- Benefits include 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
- The position is based in Seattle, Washington.
