Sr. Software Development Engineer, Studios Tech, Backlot Source

Who we are

The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain which is focused on ordering, storing, classifying, tagging, transcoding and managing the life cycle of very large volume of assets right from the creative phase to the final distribution. Our team’s product serves as a digital backbone for Amazon MGM Studios, which comprise of 10+ customer groups spread across 32 locales around the globe. This team maintains the large scale asset storage (100’s of PB) and discovery solutions which acts as single pane of glass view of billions of videos, audio stems, trailers, documents and images.

What will you do

• You will be responsible to develop/maintain secure, scalable, low latency and reliable services which handle the copy, transfer, transcode, media info validation, auto QC, storage optimization, semantic search, AI based metadata extraction/tagging, discoverability and life cycle management of an extremely large volume of media files.
• You will own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows, which seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with the internal systems for data exchange/enrichment, without adding additional complexity, overhead and disruption to the business.
• Your architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for supporting the media transcodes.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead complex, high-visibility technical programs that power the world's most comprehensive studios technology organization
• Drive architectural decisions and technical strategy for next-generation media supply chain products
• Partner with engineering teams to build scalable solutions that handle massive amounts of global content data
• Provide mentorship to other engineers on best practices while raising the bar for engineering excellence
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software

A day in the life

• You will Own Shape the technical foundation that brings award-winning content to viewers worldwide
• You will Design and build workflows for the mission-critical digital content lifecycle
• You will Influence across teams to deliver holistic solutions
• You will Own the operational stability of highly reliable digital asset management products

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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