Sr. Software Development Engineer, Studios Tech, Backlot Source

Overview

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are offered on Prime Video? Do you want to define the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the digital media supply chain? Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers?

If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

This Software development position with Amazon Prime Video and Studios tech is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency, highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem‑solving skills, has a solid computer science foundation, experience of backend design patterns, APIs and takes pride in operations excellence.

This role is based in Los Angeles, putting you at the intersection of Amazon's tech innovation and MGM's century of storytelling excellence.

Join us in building the future of entertainment!

The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain that 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 (hundreds of PB) and discovery solutions which act as a single pane of glass view of billions of videos, audio stems, trailers, documents and images.

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable, low‑latency and reliable services that 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.
• Own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows that seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with internal systems for data exchange/enrichment.
• Leverage the latest AWS cloud technologies for database persistence, storage, compute and AWS Media Convert for media transcodes.
• Design and implement distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale.

• 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.

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

• Deep technical expertise in large‑scale distributed systems and architecture.
• Proven track record leading complex technical programs with multiple stakeholders.
• High bar in driving operational and engineering excellence, strategic thinking and tactical execution.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior leadership and other engineering teams across broader organization.
• Experience scaling teams and mentoring other engineers to achieve multiple goals.

The Media Supply Chain team serves as a digital backbone that handles the post‑production workflows for all of the 1P content produced by Amazon MGM Studios. You will be joining a 2‑pizza team based out of LA, which will interact with four other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross‑functional teams in the…