Amazon Software Development Engineer Prime Video Cross Platform Player Team 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

811865340

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Prime video cross platform player team you will:- Design, develop, and deliver features for our cross-platform player SDK
- Develop high-performance, highly reliable software components using TypeScript and Rust
- Enhance player SDK components to implement nuanced streaming features based on product requirements- Drive algorithm and architecture design, execute, and deliver results- Think about operational stability from the design phase, incorporating monitoring and safety mechanisms to improve reliability and availability- Work with principal and senior engineers to brainstorm on engineering challenges and push the technical boundaries of solutions
A day in the life
As a media player engineer, your day will be filled with a variety of engaging tasks. You will design new components from the requirements of product stakeholders, optimizing performance to ensure a consistently excellent experience across different operating platforms. Enhancing the media player with nuanced features, you'll work to elevate the customer's interaction with the application. Collaborating closely with the talented team, you'll participate in code and design reviews, helping to raise the overall quality bar. Diving deep into customer data and feedback, you'll build metrics to understand the customer impact, working backwards from their experience to improve the streaming experience holistically. Additionally, you'll play a key role in hiring and developing the skills of your team members, as well as partnering with stakeholders on high-stakes engineering projects.

- 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
- Experience in working with high reliability, high availability systems.
- Experience with multi-threaded systems
- Fluency in more than one programming language (e.g. Java, C++, Go, Kotlin, Clojure, Scala, Ruby, Python, Perl).
- Knowledge of functional architecture is a plus.
- Experience in Rust is highly desirable.