Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ads

Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ads

Job ID: | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we\'re just getting started.

PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We recently launched Prime Video\'s Ads offering in January 2024 and are continuing to launch new products and features for our customers. In the past we have helped launch Thursday Night Football and CBS All Access (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.

As an engineer in a relatively new business, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low latency/high throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion for Video on demand. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS and internal AWS incubator technologies.

You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
• Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
• Experience developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems, that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have, but is not required
• Prior experience managing tier-1 services would be a nice to have, but is not required

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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