Software Dev Engineer III, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Stream Management

About the role

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, built on the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch and trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of one or more services in the Stream Management portfolio; write the design docs, socialize them across IVS and adjacent teams, and drive them to implementation.
• Work closely with engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Ensure backend systems are highly available, scalable, and secure at AWS scale.
• Apply backend best practices including testing, performance optimization, observability, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with other AWS service teams to integrate shared services and deliver consistent AWS service experiences.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and on-call rotations.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks.
• Lead post-incident investigations for high-severity events in our services; drive the resulting action items to completion.

A day in the life

You might start the morning by reviewing operational dashboards for anything anomalous in transcode start rates, then jump into a design review for a proposal to extend one of your services to a new region. Mid-morning you pair with a teammate on a tricky race condition in stream session teardown. In the afternoon you meet with a partner team to align on a protocol change and write a short doc summarizing the tradeoffs of two capacity-planning approaches. The work spans distributed systems, live video infrastructure, and cross-team coordination, and no two days look the same.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Familiarity with live video concepts: common streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: Golang, C/C++
• Familiarity with Live Streaming Origination, CDN integration, Caching, and Low latency Video Streaming distribution.

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually