Software Development Engineer, Live Sports - Prime Video

Software Development Engineer, Live Sports - Prime Video

Want to change the way people watch Live Sports? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Looking forward to working with a team of highly competent software engineers ranging from new graduates to seasoned architects building software using the latest AWS technologies? Are you looking for an inclusive team where you feel safe to be yourself, to share your ideas openly, to experiment, fail and learn, and where you help make decisions that shape the team’s path forward?

If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

Who we are? We are the Prime Video Live Events team, revolutionizing the way our customers search, discover and enjoy live events from sports, to music, to breaking news and political debates. In September 2018 we launched our first full‑scale live streaming experience to all of our worldwide Prime customers with NFL’s Thursday Night Football. In just a year, we delivered a multi‑game watching experience to our Prime Video customers in the UK for the English Premier League.

That was just the start. We are expanding and look for engineers to build innovative solutions for customers to discover engaging and personalized live content to enjoy. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience for customers everywhere. Our team is building a wide variety of services from low‑latency, high‑TPS services that control the lifecycle of live events and help customers discover live or upcoming games on a variety of devices including Alexa, and to engage customers on Prime Video content offline and through social‑media platforms.

If you’re a strong engineer, there’s a home for you in Prime Video Live Events. Our leaders are great teachers, our engineers are world‑class, and our products are fun.

What will you do? We are looking for smart, motivated Software Development Engineers who can help build a personalized discovery experience for thousands of live streaming events available worldwide using technologies like machine learning. If you have experience building large‑scale, high‑performance, customer‑friendly products and are interested in designing and implementing distributed systems to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale, this is the job for you.

This is an exciting role, offering a customer‑obsessed engineer to learn and use a broad array of technologies to make a real impact. Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies including EC2, S3, Dynamo

DB, Kinesis, and Cloud Front in supporting billions of requests from millions of Prime Video users.

If you’re excited about helping to build the future of live event streaming or just want to have fun creating something you can be proud to show your family and friends, reach out. We’d love to chat.

• 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
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

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