Prime Video - Software Development Engineer (level 4)

Job summary:
Digital Media Engineering owns video delivery for the video supply chain of Prime Video. We enable the video catalog by producing, enhancing, and analyzing millions of video assets every day. We use a combination of algorithms, heuristics and machine learning techniques to puzzle out interesting insights and build the world's best video catalog.

A day in the life:
You'll have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers. This is a strategic role to shape and deliver a technical strategy for improving the Prime Video customer experience and creating visibility into the end-to-end delivery of content. Our team is the engine that powers the delivery of content to customers and we need an experienced program manager to ensure our success.

About the hiring group:
This team focuses on people and innovation. As team member, you will have enormous opportunities to innovate and to impact our customer experience by developing cutting-edge products. You will be responsible for systems that serve millions of customers per day, with obsessively high reliability, and low operational overhead.

Job responsibilities:
As an SDE on our team, you will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of cutting-edge products that will be used every day by people you know. You will be responsible for systems that serve millions of customers per day, with obsessively high reliability, and low operational overhead. You will be solving complex scalability, availability and performance problems by building distributed, large-scale services using the latest AWS technologies like Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and S3. As we get more advanced, you will be using machine learning and AI to handle sophisticated analysis of customer engagement data to automatically surface and fix quality issues.
Successful candidates for this position will have a background in either Java, C#, or C++, or a similar development language. Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to learn and to gain new skills, to create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to technical and business problems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Bachelor's degree in computer science related fields OR 1+ years equivalent experience in software development
• Good knowledge of Data Structures & Algorithms and proven skills in problem solving using those concepts in software code.
• Working knowledge of databases, service-oriented architectures, and highly-scaled distributed systems

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
· Working knowledge of design patterns
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Experience with high throughput cloud systems
· Working knowledge of implementing and consuming large scale web services

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