Amazon · 23 hours ago
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Production and Post Production Technology
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon MGM Studios is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to lead technical development for their Studio in the Cloud (SITC) platform. The role involves leading software development for critical platform components and designing distributed systems to support creative professionals in a cloud environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Lead software development for critical SITC platform components, owning team-level architecture and providing system-wide design guidance for workflows such as media ingestion pipelines, transcoding infrastructure, real-time collaboration systems, GPU rendering platforms, or delivery automation
Design and implement distributed systems spanning multiple features across the full software lifecycle including working backwards from customer needs, software design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. Lead multi-engineer projects requiring integration of parallel work from team members
Own team architecture decisions including service boundaries, API contracts, data models, storage patterns, compute strategies, and integration approaches. Bring perspective and context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices that enable SITC to scale from 70+ to 150+ concurrent productions
Solve complex technical problems with multiple risks and roadblocks including: high-bandwidth media transfer (sustained 100+ Mbps) across regions with varying network infrastructure, low-latency playback for interactive creative review, elastic GPU compute scaling for rendering workloads, multi-region disaster recovery that maintains high availability during AWS regional outages, and integration with vendor systems (Avid, Adobe, Blackmagic) that have specific infrastructure dependencies
Develop deep understanding of business impact and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs between short-term delivery needs and long-term architectural maintainability. Proactively simplify code and resolve team architecture deficiencies that bottleneck innovation
Write exemplary production code that demonstrates best practices in code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, testing, and documentation. Your coding practices serve as examples for the team. Deliver frequently and incrementally, balancing speed of delivery with foundational architecture for the future
Lead design reviews for your team and actively participate in design reviews for adjacent teams. Ensure everyone's voice is considered when making decisions and build consensus on the best path forward when confronted with differing points of view
Drive adoption of engineering best practices on your team including operational excellence standards, robust testing strategies, security best practices, code review processes, and retrospective/COE practices. Identify and execute on opportunities to improve team operations and reduce systemic issues
Actively coach and mentor multiple engineers on your team, helping them develop technical skills, design thinking, and engineering judgment. Participate in hiring loops, technical assessments, and promotion evaluations
Communicate technical designs and decisions effectively in writing for technical audiences, creating architecture documents, design proposals, and technical specifications that drive alignment across the team and with stakeholders
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
5+ 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
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Company
Amazon
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$8.11BKey Investors
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2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
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