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Amazon Software Development Engineer (Prime Video) in Culver City, California
Description
What's your favorite movie on Amazon Prime Video? Are you a sports fan who loves watching your favorite team on your ultra-high definition TV? Amazon Prime Video is changing the way millions of customers interact with video content. We not only deliver movies and Emmy Winning shows such as "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, but also play Live channels with local weather and news, and live sports streaming such as English Premier League. Across the globe, we strive to provide the best video playback experience to our customers. Customers love Prime Video and we have a great opportunity to innovate on behalf of our customers. You will have a profound impact on millions of customers.
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 a modern programming language. 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.
Key job responsibilities
• You lead the design and implementation of automated solutions with organization.
• You have a strong background in OO design with Java/C++ and influence team to insist on high standards.
• You build innovative systems that are highly efficient and scalable.
• You communicate effectively with other members- SDETs, SDEs, QAEs, Product Managers, and stakeholders.
A day in the life
• You lead design and implementation of frameworks and infrastructure to ensure delivering high quality experience to our customer.
• You are passionate about delivering the best possible customer experiences and insists on highest standards for your team.
• You 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.
About the team
We are building a brand new team focused on next-gen automation and monitoring solutions to uphold and raise the end-customer bar. We will be responsible for empowering teams to leverage computer vision and ML based automation on devices. 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.
Basic Qualifications
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.