Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Ads Channels

Role and team

Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale systems powering live and on-demand video streams with ads.
• Develop low-latency, high-throughput dynamic ad insertion systems for Prime Video customers worldwide.
• Build ad ingestion and stitching services that integrate with ad decision systems.
• Support dynamic transcoding and ad insertion during playback.
• Fetch, ingest, stitch, and deliver ads across supported devices and partner configurations.

Basic qualifications

• At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• At least 2 years of experience designing or architecting systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
• Background developing customer-facing experiences, with technical ability, communication, motivation, creativity, and analytical reasoning.

Preferred qualifications

• At least 3 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with critical 24x7 systems, high-throughput multithreaded systems, or customer-delivered large-scale distributed systems.
• Video advertising product experience and prior tier-1 service management experience are nice to have, not required.

Technology and systems

• The team uses AWS technologies including CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, and SQS.
• The work involves video ad serving, dynamic ad insertion, ad decision systems, and large-scale distributed services.

Compensation

• The stated base salary range is USD 143,700 to USD 194,400 annually for Seattle, Washington.
• Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.