Sr. Software Development Engineer - Prime Video Voice Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

We are looking for a motivated Senior SDE who can help build the future of Voice for Prime Video. We are disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a massive library of amazing content available instantly, anywhere. Our services are engineered for high availability, maximum reach, and cost savings that we can pass on to customers. We enable the world to watch video instantly, from any device, whether on the road or from the comfort of a living room sofa. Today, we deliver Movies, TV shows and Live Sports to desktop, tablets, gaming consoles, smart phones, and smart TVs. We operate in over 250 countries and territories and we're continuing to grow.

If you have experience architecting and building large-scale, high-performance products and are interested in designing multi-tier services to deliver customer-facing features at Amazon scale, this is the job for you. You will work across multiple Amazon teams both inside and outside Prime Video to design and build unique experiences for customers. This is a new team, so you'll need to set the technical direction and the best practices while helping to team develop into a consistent center of excellence and delivery.

Our innovative systems include highly efficient and large scale platforms built on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure. As a Senior Engineer, you'll be responsible for building solutions to scale to 10s of Millions of customers, that will also work for the team as it grows. Good candidates will have the ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.

As a Senior Software Engineer You Will Be Expected To

* Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
* Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
* Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
* Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, and engineering best practices.
* Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against competing systems in the industry.
* Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
* Exert technical influence over the core platform teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your knowledge and experience.