System Development Engineer, Production and Post Production Technology

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DESCRIPTION:

Amazon MGM Studios is seeking a Systems Development Engineer II to improve operational excellence and system reliability for our Studio in the Cloud (SITC) platform. SITC is transforming entertainment content creation by moving all major production and post-production workflows from traditional on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud-based solutions. This initiative encompasses nine core workflows-Dailies, Editorial, VFX, Sound, Conform, Color, Mastering, QC/Delivery, and Remote Production-representing the complete content creation lifecycle from Original Camera Footage (OCF) ingestion through final delivery.

In this role, you will work independently to make SITC systems more resilient, reliable, automated, and easier to operate. You will own your team's engineering and operational excellence, delivering solutions that reduce toil, eliminate risks, improve agility, and enable engineers to deliver products and features to customers with less effort, less cost, and better quality. You may focus on CI/CD automation for media workflow deployments, infrastructure optimization, observability and monitoring improvements, disaster recovery testing, performance tuning, or developer productivity tools that accelerate delivery.

As a SysDE II, you will design and deliver technology solutions solving difficult business and technical problems, using appropriate combinations of software development, infrastructure automation, systems design, and process improvements. You will coach others on identifying and eliminating risk, especially risks to system resilience. You will participate in design reviews, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident analyses to identify contributing causes and deliver permanent fixes that prevent recurrence.

Your work is mostly tactical, though you are beginning to participate in strategic planning processes like OP1 and OP2, ensuring appropriate investment in reliability and automation.

This role requires solid technical skills spanning multiple domains including software development, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and systems design. You will implement solutions for SITC systems that handle terabyte-scale media data, maintain responsive performance for creative workflows, operate across multiple AWS regions, and integrate with proprietary vendor systems like Avid, Adobe, and Blackmagic. Success requires writing high-quality automation and tooling, building robust operational processes, and ensuring systems support Amazon MGM Studios' production slate spanning 150+ titles annually without operational failures that impact creative teams.

Key job responsibilities
Improve your team's operational health and system resilience by participating in design reviews, operations reviews, and post-incident analyses to identify risks to reliability, then delivering projects that mitigate those risks through automation, architectural improvements, or process changes

Design and deliver technology solutions that solve difficult operational and technical problems including: CI/CD pipeline automation for safe media workflow deployments, infrastructure-as-code implementations that reduce manual provisioning, monitoring and alerting systems that detect issues before customer impact, automated testing frameworks for vendor tool integrations, performance optimization for high-bandwidth media transfers, cost optimization tools that reduce infrastructure spending, or disaster recovery procedures that ensure multi-region availability

Work independently on automation, infrastructure, and tooling projects, seeking direction from your manager, SDE 3s, or Principal Engineers when facing architectural or technical trade-offs

Write high-quality software that meets Amazon Code Bar when building automation scripts, infrastructure tools, deployment systems, monitoring frameworks, or operational utilities. Ensure implementations are logical, maintainable, tested, version-controlled, and can be understood…