Software Development Engineer Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Come reinvent digital delivery! We are looking for an experienced senior software developer to help us reimagine the delivery experience and then build the next generation of digital delivery technology that will get customers digital content faster than ever, wherever they happen to be located.

The Digital Delivery team is responsible for getting all of your favorite digital content like eBooks, Audible books, Magazines and others, from the cloud to your eInk Kindle, Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, iOS or Android device, or PC reader, anywhere in the world.

Living in a data-centric world, we constantly analyze download performance times across the globe. We make use of regionalized services, CDNs, S3, local caches, and a number of other technologies to ensure customers can get their content in seconds and that we can fulfill the Kindle 60 second promise. We also own the DRM services that publishers use to protect content. We get intimately involved in each of the new Kindle features, from new hardware to new file formats to expanding into new countries.

We strive to be an always available service and provide secure content quickly. We continually deal with huge scaling issues, from ever increasing content sizes (like when we added HD ePeriodicals) to peaks in Q4 (everyone gets a Kindle for Christmas and immediately downloads books, deluging our servers).

You are an entrepreneurial self-starter. You care deeply about the customer and will be relentless about improving the delivery experience. You have the technical skills to gain deep knowledge such as networking & streaming protocols as well as the ability to look broadly across a complex distributed system to drive both point improvements as well as architectural refactoring.