Software Development Engineer, Production and Post Production Technology, Amazon MGM Studios

About the role

The Studio in the Cloud (SITC) Production Platform Engineering team builds and maintains the infrastructure that enables productions to perform Editorial, Dailies, Color, Conform, VFX, Sound, QC, Mastering, and Delivery entirely in AWS. We're looking for a Software Development Engineer who can bridge the gap between traditional media workflows and modern cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build new cloud-native capabilities for VFX rendering and management, sound mixing, QC, mastering, delivery, and remote production workflows
• Improve and scale existing Editorial, Dailies, Color, and Conform workflows supporting active productions
• Translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK
• Troubleshoot production-impacting issues across the full stack—from network configurations to application-level bugs—diving as deep as needed to unblock creative teams
• Design and implement solutions using AWS compute, storage, and networking services optimized for high-throughput media workloads
• Build secure infrastructure following AWS best practices for encryption (at-rest and in-transit), IAM policies, VPC design, and authentication mechanisms
• Collaborate with Product Management and internal Production Technology teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Automate operational tasks and build self-service tools that empower production teams

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

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Skills

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

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave