Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Web Players

Do you love movies? Are you intrigued about how “The Boys” is streamed to a computer and recreated on the screen? Are you excited about building products for hundreds of millions of customers, including your friends and family?, Every day we are innovating to enhance our customer experience, whether they want to enjoy new hit shows like The Boys or watch live sports like Thursday Night Football. As an engineer on the team you will work closely with Product management to develop and improve the Web Player experience, build SDKs to support player features such as accessibility, and Integrate and analyze video playback analytics solutions to continually optimize performance.

About the team

Our team enjoys a fast paced, highly collaborative environment. To be successful, you will need to be flexible and entrepreneurial. You work on big, creative ideas, and you are hands on with incremental features. You are a true owner - you care about the customer experience deeply and you care about the long term sustainability of the product just as deep. You create extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.

Successful candidates for this position will have a background in TypeScript and JavaScript. Have familiarity with:

• HTML5 video player development.
• Widevine and PlayReady DRM technologies.
• Different video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, etc.).
• Optimizing player performance.
• Collaborating with other teams to resolve issues and facilitate playback integration.

Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate’s ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.

The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently great digital media experiences to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.

A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems., * 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, * 3+ 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

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, WA, SEATTLE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually