SDE - Core Video Delivery Technologies

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Prime Video is changing traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Our architecture operates at exabyte-scale, engineered for reliability, scalability, and performance. Prime Video runs on thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide.

The Core Video Delivery Technologies team designs, implements, and operates the systems responsible for delivering video streams from the Cloud to Prime Video customers. Our services direct gigabits of video data across the Internet every second, maximizing the viewing experience for our customers.

As an SDE on our team, you will build new systems from the ground up that serve billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. We apply the latest machine learning techniques and leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, Athena, and internal AWS incubator technologies.

Successful candidates have a solid background in modern programming languages, distributed system design, service-oriented architecture, and high scalability. Experience in large-scale networking, machine learning technologies and big data is a plus. Equally important is the ability to multi-task, invent, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Degree in Computer Science or related field
· 3+ years of product development experience in consumer-focused companies
· 3+ years of technical experience as software developer, or related role
· Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design
· Computer Science fundamentals in data structures
· Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
· Experience developing in at least one of Java, C++, or C#.