Prime Video Sports - Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Sports Lifecycle Team

Want to change the way people watch Live Sports? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Looking forward to work 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. 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 of to show your family and friends, reach out. We'd love to chat.

A day in the life

We are looking for smart, motivated Software Development Engineers who can help in building an automation platform to control the lifecycle of live events (sports, news, concerts) using latest technologies such as machine learning and computer vision. 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.

About the team

We are the Prime Video Live Events team, we revolutionize the way our customers search, discover and enjoy live events from sports, to music, to breaking news and political debates. We are expanding and looking for engineers to join our team in Austin, TX, to build full stack innovative solutions 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 Austin team is building a wide variety of full stack services from low-latency, high-TPS services that control the lifecycle of live events and help customers discover live and upcoming games on a variety of devices including Alexa, to engaging customers on Prime Video content offline and through social-media platforms. If you're a strong engineer, there's a home for you in Austin working on Prime Video Live Events. Our leaders are great teachers, our engineers are world-class, and our products are fun.

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Graduate degree in a related technical field

- Experience with critical, 24x7 systems

- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems

- Fluency in more than one programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Go, Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Python, Perl)

- Knowledge of Machine Learning, Computer Vision is a plus

- Knowledge of functional architecture is a plus

- Experience with AWS services highly desirable

- Experience in Rust is highly desirable

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