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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Prime Video - Sye Low Latency Live Streaming in Stockholm, Sweden
Description
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of movies and television? Do you want to help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
Our challenges are unique – you will solve technical challenges in a large-scale distributed system with high requirements on performance, scalability, security and maintainability. You will drive future solutions that will impact how we run Amazon Video worldwide.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for development of the core functionality of the Sye low-latency streaming solution; streaming server, client and protocol. This entails adding capabilities according to requirements and KPIs defined by the Sye team or external teams, improving efficiency, continuously measuring quality and deliver on time with the right scope. The requirements are often ambiguous which requires designs with the right tradeoffs. New designs require written proposal containing well thought of options covering all angels and to be reviewed and aligned with internal and sometimes external stakeholders. Within Amazon you run what you build. troubleshooting, resolving bugs critical for production and being part of operations during events are expected by all developers.
A day in the life
As part of the Sye team you will be involved with daily stand-ups, code reviews from team members, internal and cross team meetings to align on technical complexities, estimate deliveries with milestones and write technical documents. Tier-1 events involve planning of new features to be deployed, tests to be performed and data to be analyzed in order to continuously improve the customer experience. Status and goals tracking are expected every so often.
About the team
We are the Prime Video Sye team and we re-invented live streaming, making sports a sharable experience without spoilers from push-notifications, loud neighbors of friend through social media. Since joining Prime Video, we successfully lunched Sye on NFL’s Thursday Night Football, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League to mention a few. We have expanded in device platforms and onboarded more Content Delivery Networks, carrying traffic using the Sye software. We are expanding and are looking for engineers joining our team in Stockholm, Sweden. We live and breath low latency streaming and are passionate with providing our customers with the best possible live user experience.
We are looking for smart, motivated Software Development Engineers who are fluent in C++ and can help in continued buildout of our streaming platform and to improve the customer experience even further. 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 an opportunity 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, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and Cloudfront in supporting billions of requests from millions of Prime Video users.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Stockholm, SWE
Basic Qualifications
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience in C+Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Proficient in TypeScript and JavaScript
Experience in Rust
Experience of Docker
Experience of cloud technologies, such as AWS and/or
OS fundamentals and systems architecture
Algorithms, data-structures, efficiency, concurrency, performance optimization
Experience in working in an agile environment with continuous integration and testing
Strong adherence to unit/system testing
Demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills
Proficient in written and spoken English to at least C1 level or equivalent
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