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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music, Partner Payments & Reporting

Amazon Music · San Francisco, CA · 1 wk ago
ConsultingFull-time

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices.

About the role

As a Software Development Engineer on the Partner Payments and Reporting teams, you will design and build scalable backend services that process streaming data at massive scale, handling payment calculations and royalty distributions for music partners across multiple countries. You will develop and maintain data pipelines that gather, enrich, and transform data from multiple internal systems to generate accurate external datasets and reports for content partners. You will build end-to-end reporting platforms including critical data validations, data lakes, delivery systems, and audit mechanisms to ensure payment accuracy and completeness. You will be solving distributed system challenges involving big data processing, working at the limits of scale to handle billions of play activities and financial transactions. You will collaborate across multiple teams including technology, business, and operational stakeholders to deliver projects that support music licensing requirements, and contribute to platform innovation by building new systems from the ground up that anticipate future music licensing demands and enable continued business agility, using Gen AI technologies. You will do this while ensuring data quality and reliability as the last line of defense between Amazon and external music partners, maintaining the trust of labels, publishers, and collection societies worldwide.

About the team

Come join a team that's building next generation business and financial automation tools to support licensing and payment business obligations, leveraging the best in full-stack AWS technologies. We build critical systems to compute royalties, disburse payments and provide analytical reporting to digital content partners, worldwide. Our team develops systems that simplify and automate complex royalty payment and accounting rules, allowing us to eliminate financial risk and focus on delighting our customers. We strive to hold a high bar in paying our content partners accurately, completely and on-time.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend services that process streaming data at massive scale, handling payment calculations and royalty distributions for music partners across multiple countries.
  • Develop and maintain data pipelines that gather, enrich, and transform data from multiple internal systems to generate accurate external datasets and reports for content partners.
  • Build end-to-end reporting platforms including critical data validations, data lakes, delivery systems, and audit mechanisms to ensure payment accuracy and completeness.
  • Solve distributed system challenges involving big data processing, working at the limits of scale to handle billions of play activities and financial transactions.
  • Collaborate across multiple teams including technology, business, and operational stakeholders to deliver projects that support music licensing requirements.
  • Contribute to platform innovation by building new systems from the ground up that anticipate future music licensing demands and enable continued business agility, using Gen AI technologies.
  • Ensure data quality and reliability as the last line of defense between Amazon and external music partners, maintaining the trust of labels, publishers, and collection societies worldwide.

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.
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience.
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • 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.

Pay

USA, CA, San Francisco - $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually.

Benefits

  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans).
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
  • Medical Advice Line.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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