Software Development Engineer II, Backlot Source

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television that are offered on Prime Video? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems that solve the complex problems involved in the digital media supply chain? Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.
This Software development position with Amazon Prime Video and Studios tech is a fit for someone who enjoys and thrives owning low latency, highly available stacks/services requiring strong problem-solving skills, has a solid computer science foundation, experience of backend design patterns, APIs and takes pride in operations excellence.

Who we are?
The Asset Discovery team is responsible for building a proprietary digital media supply chain which is focused on ordering, storing, transforming and managing the life cycle of a large volume of marketing assets right from the creative phase to the final distribution. Our team’s product serves as a digital backbone for teams run spanning the entirety Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, which comprise of 10+ customer groups spread across 32 locales around the globe. This team maintains the large scale asset storage and discovery solutions which acts as single pane of glass view of billions of artwork, images, audios, videos, and other assets.

What will you do?
You will be responsible to develop/maintain secure, scalable, low latency and reliable services which handle the copy, transfer, transcode, media info validation, auto QC, storage, search, AI based metadata extraction/tagging, discoverability and life cycle management of an extremely large volume of media files. You will own a unified digital asset management solution with highly configurable and customized ingest/approval/distribution workflows, which seamlessly fits into the PV, Amazon MGM Studios ecosystem and integrates with the internal systems for data exchange/enrichment, without adding additional complexity, overhead and disruption to the business. Our architecture leverages the latest in AWS cloud technologies AVP, DynamoDB, Aurora, Open Search, ECS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Eventbridge, Cloudwatch, AWS Media Convert, in supporting these workflows. 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.


Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
* Design and build innovative products in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
* Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
* Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
* Design and code the right solutions by working on the following:
* Design (design patterns, reliability and scaling) and maintenance of new and existing systems.
* Scalable backend services and APIs using Java, Python.
* JavaScript frameworks such as react and node.
* CDK for AWS offerings.

About the team
You will be joining an existing 2-pizza team based out of LA, which will interact/interface with 4 other sister teams that exist in the program and multiple other cross functional teams in the org.

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

- 5+ 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 in the entertainment industry

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Culver City - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually