Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports and Linear

About the role

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable services technology in a team environment? Do you like working on industry-defining projects that move the needle? Sports and Linear represent the next major growth verticals for Prime Video. We're acquiring the biggest and best Sports events (e.g. NFL, NBA) and also defining the best live TV experience on Prime Video, investing in our people to reinvent the future of entertainment!

About the team

Our team is responsible for building the Prime Video Sports and Linear experiences across all clients that Prime Video supports (living room devices, mobile, web). We are coders and craftspeople who care as much about how things look and feel as how they function and perform. We seek diverse perspectives and create accessible experiences for all people to enjoy. We strive to move fast for customers but prioritize long-term decisions that will scale as we grow.

• Focus on customer-facing, high-visibility, high-impact projects to improve the customer experience for live events.
• Design and build new full-stack features end-to-end.
• Access to multiple Principal Engineers (PEs) and Senior Development Engineers (SDE IIIs) for mentorship and career progression.
• Build inclusive culture through biweekly team-building events and work-life balance initiatives.
• Participate in employee-led affinity groups and annual conferences like CORE+ (intersectional conversations on race, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary SDEs to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

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.
• 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 experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Working experience with Rust programming language.

Pay

USA, WA, SEATTLE - $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

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