Sr. Software Engineer, Video Supply Chain Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

Why this job is awesome:

* This is high IMPACT work: Our mission is to provide On Time, high quality, regionalized and personalized assets to every single title for every customer in every country around the world.
* Millions of customers will be impacted by your contributions: The innovations we build directly impact the customer experience on every Prime Video Page. This is a great position for someone who likes backend development and Service-Oriented Architecture, but wants to see and measure their direct impact on customers.
* You would build highly scalable, low latency, services and technologies on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure that distribute PETABYTES of top tier video content through billions of assets across entire Prime Video ecosystem.
* We are a cross-functional team that owns the entire end to end asset experience for Prime Video customers. You will collaborate with senior engineering managers and engineers to architect and develop the best technical and operational design and approach, delivering value quickly to customers without sacrificing the long-term

Amazon Video is disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a massive library of high-quality media and reliable digital delivery. 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 Events to Windows and Mac PCs, portable devices, gaming consoles, smart phones, and smart TVs. We operate in over 250 countries and territories and we aspire to grow -- a lot.

We are looking for a smart, motivated Sr. SDE who can help take our Video Supply Chain to new heights. If you have experience building large-scale, high-performance, customer-friendly products and are interested in designing multi-tier services to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale, this is the job for you.

Our innovative systems include high efficient and large scale platforms built on Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure. For this position you will have a strong background in OO design with Java/C++. Experience working with web services, XML, JSON, Apache services is desired. Linux system development experience is a plus. Equally important to these specific skills is 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.

You are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself, your team and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and don't shy away from hard work to reach your goals. You are excited about the opportunity to engage in developing a top notch consumer web application and user experience.