Software Dev Engineer III , Amazon Interactive Video Service; IVS

Description

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, built on the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch and trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment.

Our mission: enable developers to build communities around live video. We handle everything from ingest to processing to delivery at global scale, so developers can focus on creating interactive, engaging live experiences for their audiences. Whether you're streaming to tens of millions of concurrent viewers or just getting started, Amazon IVS removes the complexity so developers can move fast.

IVS’s Video Client SDK team is looking for experienced mobile engineers to build a multi-platform broadcasting and playback system that works everywhere people want to create and consume video. We own the Real Time, Broadcast, and Video Player SDKs that power our customers  live video experiences. As a software engineer in the Mobile Client SDK Team reporting to the Director of Client Engineering, you will create and refine a media experience used by millions of users all over the world.

• Develop and maintain our video playback, broadcast, and real-time SDKs for iOS
• Collaborate with backend video teams that support low-latency and real-time media broadcasting and playback
• Build reliable unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Stay current on Apple platform developments, media frameworks, and streaming technologies

You might start the morning investigating a customer-reported playback issue, digging into AV Foundation behavior across iOS versions. By midmorning you re building new playback functionality in our HLS Player SDK including API design, implementing for functionality in C++, crafting platform specific bindings, and testing across a range of devices. After lunch you re reviewing a teammate s PR for the real-time SDK, discussing codec tradeoffs with the backend team, and running integration tests to make sure nothing regressed.

The work spans the full media stack on Apple platforms and no two days look the same.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that helps customers create interactive video experiences  power some of the world s largest streaming platforms, including Twitch, enabling businesses and developers to add live video and real-time interactivity to their applications without managing complex video infrastructure.

We build innovative solutions that democratize live video streaming technology. You ll work with talented engineers who are passionate about solving complex challenges and creating seamless, low-latency, and real-time streaming experiences. If you re excited about shaping the future of interactive live video, join us as we continue to expand our capabilities and empower customers worldwide.

• 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
• Strong background in foundational iOS/Apple platform technologies and languages such as Swift, Objective-C, and UIKit/SwiftUI

• 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
• Experience programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
• Experience building cross-platform libraries/SDKs and shipping successful software products
• Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS, LL-HLS, DASH) and codecs such as H.264, H.265, and AV1
• Experience with Apple media frameworks (AV Foundation, Video Toolbox, Audio Toolbox, Core Media)

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