1 day ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of one or more Stream Management services, including design documentation and implementation delivery.
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, secure backend systems for live-stream session management.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and AWS service teams to deliver integrated customer experiences.
- Apply backend engineering practices including testing, performance optimization, observability, code reviews, and maintainable code.
- Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, runbooks, and on-call participation.
- Lead post-incident investigations for high-severity service events and complete resulting action items.
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.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multithreaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred familiarity with live video concepts, streaming protocols, transcoding, codecs, AWS services, and real-time media streaming technologies such as HLS, DASH, WebRTC, or MOQ.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice line, and flexible spending benefits.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- The role is available in San Francisco, Santa Clara, or Seattle; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement.
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.