Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

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!

Amazon Music Stations is growing, and growing fast. To support this increase in customers, we're building large scale, robust, high throughput systems with a low cost of maintenance, using the best technologies and techniques at hand. We spend our time on things that matter to customers--not the muck of managing systems. We're a growing team, but we are still focused on keeping operations low. We spend our time on what's special for Amazon Music Stations, and use off the shelf AWS products for the rest, such as EC2, EMR, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB.

If you love building first-in-class systems and services, this is the team for you. Our system handles 10s of millions of calls per day across thousands of stations for Amazon Music's millions of customers around the world. On top of this layer we are building systems to manage, monitor, and action hundreds of simultaneous experiments across all stations. Everything we build is full continuous deployment and requires a high level of automated testing, mostly developed in Java or Ruby on Rails, though we focus on using the right tools to get the job done.

You are a talented, detail-oriented, and enthusiastic Software Development Engineer who is passionate about the customer and loves building great new systems. You will have the opportunity to contribute your creative ideas and energy to Amazon Music. Duties include research, design, and implementation of new systems and software algorithms, testing their best ideas against Amazon's legions of music customers, and being a key part of delivering a great new service.