Software Development Engineer, VOD Encoding

Are you interested in shaping the future of video? Are you passionate about enabling smooth and immersive video experience on both wide-reaching and next generation smart TVs, mobile devices, game consoles, and video gadgets? Do you want to join the journey to deliver the best streaming quality to every customer in every country around the world? Are you excited about the opportunity to build massively parallel exabyte-scale transcoding infrastructure that forms the backbone of the Prime Video engineering? Here we place you an opportunity to fulfill your aspiration and join a team of like-minded individuals who take pride in providing world class viewing experience to users globally.

Prime Video is changing the way millions of customers interact with video content. The Prime Video team delivers high-quality video to Amazon customers through subscriptions (Amazon Prime) as well as purchases and rentals. Every day we face the challenges of a fast paced market, expanding technology set and a seamless delivery to a wide range of viewing devices. As a leader in the Prime Video Encoding team, you will play a key role in building products from the ground up.

A day in the life

As part of the Prime Video Encoding team, you will work on building and optimizing encodes that enables delivery of high quality audio/video for Amazon Prime Video customers worldwide. You will work on advanced Audio Video standards such as HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Atmos, AV1 and state-of-the-art compression techniques such as Segment Adaptive Encoding, Distributed Chunk Encoding etc. to enhance the viewing experience of the end users. You will also work on subjective and objective quality metrics to enable better and consistent viewing experience at lower bitrates. You will leverage many of the key Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including EC2, S3, API Gateway, ECS, Lambda, SWF, Sagemaker and Dynamo DB towards that goal.

About the hiring group


The Prime Video Encoding teams mission is to create the highest quality video, audio, captions and images possible for millions of Prime Video customers worldwide. We build large-scale distributed media processing technologies including media transcoding, quality analysis, media inspection and CV/ML applications. We build services and workflows that analyze, encode, package and encrypt content into the full range of formats required for playback across thousands of device types in over 200 territories worldwide. Our architecture operates at exabyte-scale, engineered for reliability, scalability, and performance. We are looking for a strong SDE who can help build the next-gen Media Architecture at Amazon scale.

Job responsibilities

* Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
* Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
* Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
* Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
* Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
* Experience influencing software engineers best practices within your team
* Hands-on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
* Experience in digital media, especially knowledge of video streaming, compression, codec formats, video encoding and packaging is a plus but not mandatory. Should be willing to dive into and learn new technologies.

About the team
Our mission is to build and operate the most innovative video streaming technology stack that provides the best customer-centric streaming experience for VOD and Live globally and supports all business use cases (subscription, transactional, ad-supported). We invent and implement technologies that deliver a flawless, engaging streaming experience for our customers, using the fewest bits possible. We commit to our values of respect and integrity by creating a work environment that is supportive, diverse, inspiring, and inclusive. - 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 modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent