Software Development Engineer

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Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution that makes low-latency or real-time video available to viewers around the world, allowing you to create engaging live experiences.

IVS is building the future of interactive video. The Video Server Platform Processing  team is seeking an experienced back end distributed systems developer to lead the design and development of our next generation video processing system. This role is focused on the design and development of systems that process all incoming media into IVS(live streams, VOD, ads and clips) and implement new contribution protocols at the edge(SRT, RTMP, Enhanced RTMP).  If you’re excited by the idea of building back end services that operate at a worldwide scale, and have an interest in live video and media processing pipelines that operate throughout the world then this position is for you. 

You can work in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of successful internet-scale systems and services to support the IVS Media processing systems. 
• Contribute with code and system design to the ecosystem of our services, frameworks and libraries 
• Develop maintainable services and libraries using Golang and AWS platform
• Build robust, operable, and maintainable distributed software systems
• Operate and improve automation to scale systems and services throughout the world.

• 4+ years of professional software development experience. 
• Passionate for software development and expertise in building large-scale distributed systems and services
• Possess a B.S. degree in Computer Science, Math, or an Engineering discipline
• Constantly improving engineering practices across the team including developing maintainable and evolvable software, meaningful testing, and operations

• You understand media systems and formats including familiarity with some/all of ISO/IEC 13818-1 (MPEG transport streams), 14496-10 (H.264 slice layer and above), 14496-12 (ISO Base Media File Format), RFC 8216 (HTTP Live Streaming) 
• Experience working with AWS Services(EC2, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Kinesis, Lambda etc) and operating them at scale
• Experience with media protocols such as RTMP, SRT, eRTMP, WebRTC etc 
• Experience with building software services using GoLang and Rust

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Amazon Employee Discount

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Job ID: TW8957