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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Optics

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Herndon, VA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $214k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and deploy features across nine production video services.
  • Build and operate cloud-based streaming, continuous recording, on-premises recording, camera lifecycle management, and image extraction systems.
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for security-critical production workloads.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for video infrastructure across all regions.
  • Collaborate with Data Center Security, Security Operations Centers, Analytics, and infrastructure teams.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions across cloud, edge computing, and embedded camera applications.
  • Automate site onboarding and troubleshooting to reduce operational burden.
  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operational readiness reviews.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • 1+ year of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • 1+ year of Object Oriented Design experience.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Preferred: 3+ 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 with AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and SQS.
  • Preferred: experience with video streaming or media delivery systems.
  • Preferred: experience with edge computing, embedded systems, or IoT device management.
  • Preferred: experience with camera protocols such as RTSP and ONVIF or video codecs such as H.264 and H.265.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Flexible work hours and arrangements, with the team distributed across the United States and concentrated in the DMV area, New York, and Nashville.
  • Training, knowledge-sharing, DEI learning experiences, and career-advancing resources.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBAWSC#C++JavaPerl

Categories

Amazon

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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