Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)

About the role

AWS's fully managed live streaming service, Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), is trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment. Our mission is to enable developers to build communities around live video. We handle everything from ingest to processing to delivery at global scale, so developers can focus on creating interactive, engaging live experiences for their audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core media functionality in C++ shared across platforms, and build platform-specific bindings for iOS, Android, and Web.
• Develop and maintain our video playback, broadcast, and real-time SDKs with a focus on performance, reliability, and consistent cross-platform behavior.
• Collaborate with backend video teams on low-latency and real-time media broadcasting and playback.
• Design clean, ergonomic SDK APIs that balance platform conventions with cross-platform consistency.
• Build reliable unit, integration, and end-to-end tests across multiple platforms and device configurations.
• Stay current on media codecs, streaming protocols, and platform-level media frameworks.

Requirements

• 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
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience building cross-platform libraries or SDKs with a shared C++ core
• Familiarity with media concepts such as video codecs, streaming protocols (HLS, WebRTC), or real-time media pipelines
• Experience with platform-specific development on at least one of iOS (Swift/Obj-C), Android (Kotlin/Java), or Web (TypeScript)

Skills

• Strong C++ programming skills
• Experience with cross-platform development
• Knowledge of media codecs and streaming protocols
• Experience with real-time media pipelines
• Ability to design and implement scalable and reliable systems

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, and flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually.

Schedule

Full-time