Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Amazon Music

Imagine being a part of an agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions. Picture working on cutting-edge consumer-facing products, where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Welcome to Amazon Music, where ideas are born and come to life as Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, and so much more.

Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.

Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Come innovate with the Amazon Music team!

You will be given an opportunity to own and drive initiatives through the entire software stack -- from customer facing features and data innovations to cross-channel (Email, Mobile, In-App) customer engagement services. You will be a senior lead in the development of features that drive engagement & revenue to one of the top global music listening services. You love challenging problems, collaborating with stakeholder teams, defining roadmaps, design creative technical solutions, and mentoring more junior engineers.

We own enabling our customer relationship and lifecycle marketing via the development of the tools, infrastructure, and data integrations required to manage high-scale, personalized customer interactions. We support a culture of innovation through experimentation and directly partner with Product and Marketing to build successful solutions for our business that our customers love. We have high technical standards and support you to lead the team to reach for new engineering excellence. You will set the standard for engineering, testing, and operational excellence, drive best practices across organization.

What is in it for you?

* Team culture: You'll be joining a fun team that prides itself on a great work environment with an inclusive group of people that loves working together towards a common goal.
* Impact: Work on a service that will be used, directly and indirectly, by millions of customers and has a meaningful impact to their interactions with Amazon Music
* Gratification: You will know you are directly responsible for driving business impact and delighting customer experiences.
* Critical and Fast: This is a strategic new team for Amazon Music, and we are growing & moving fast, really fast.
* Ownership: You will quickly become responsible for key components of the service, and drive what and how to build them.
* Learn & Grow: If want to learn and grow with challenges of a designing and building a large-scale system integrating across a variety of services, this is for you.
* Innovate: We learn from our customers and invent every day on their behalf.
* Make history: Amazon Music is reinventing the way we listen to music and engage with customers across the devices they use every day. Your passion for music and technology will help shape that future.
* Have fun: Surround yourself with a highly talented pool of engineers that like to solve complex problems, but also work in a fun and autonomous environment.