Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Want to change the way people watch Live Sports? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems?
We are the Prime Video Live Sports team and our mission is to revolutionize the way our customers search, discover and enjoy live sports. In September 2018, we launched our first full-scale live streaming experience to all of our world-wide Prime customers with NFL’s Thursday Night Football. In just a year, we delivered multi-game watching experience to our Prime Video customers in UK for English Premier League .
We are growing and looking for Software Development Engineer, for our team in Seattle, WA, to build innovative solutions for customer to engage and experience live content. 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. In this role you will work across our distributed engineering team in building a wide variety of services that integrates with the broader Prime Video ecosystem to deliver low-latency, high TPS services. Our leaders are great teachers, our engineers are world-class, and our products are fun.
Key job responsibilities
• You design, implement, and deploy software components.
• You have a solid understanding of design approaches (and how to best use them).
• You are able to work independently and with your team to deliver software successfully.
• Your work is consistently of a high quality and incorporates best practices.
• You focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• You are able to confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
A day in the life
SDE-II engineers are responsible for maintaining and improving code while also responding to operational issues involving APIs and workflow systems owned by our team.
SDE-II engineers are expected to work with and influence product, design and customer teams that interact with the tooling through collaboration on technical designs, identifying new business needs and operational problem solving.
They are expected to act as technical leaders on projects, ensure high quality, and mentor junior members of the team.
About the team
Our services are engineered for high availability, maximum reach, and cost savings that we can pass on to customers. We enable the world to watch video instantly, from any device, whether on the road or from the comfort of a living room sofa. We operate in over 250 countries and territories and we aspire to grow — a lot.
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
- Experience programming with Rust or Java or C++ including object-oriented design
Job Tags
Full time, Night shift,