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Job summary
Come build the future of entertainment with us! Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at any time and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.


Key job responsibilities
As an engineer on the Prime Video Network Edge team, you will help us create a highly resilient system to meet the ever-growing demands of bigger and more frequent Live Events. You work with teams across all of Prime Video, and your work will directly impact all of Prime Video's customers. As we operate at a massive scale you will help us solve problems which are unique for Prime Video and Amazon as a whole. This offers plenty of opportunity for growth, as you will be able to help shape the future of Prime Video's architecture.

A day in the life
You will work as part of one of our agile teams, launching and growing new initiatives for Prime Video. As an engineer, you are involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, technical design to development and deployment. You use the latest AWS technologies to build highly resilient and scaleable systems which are critical in ensuring the continued growth of Prime Video, and ensure those systems meet our high bar of operational excellence.

About the team
The Prime Video Network Edge team handles all requests from millions of customers worldwide. This network border must be highly available, secure and low latency to meet the scale of the ever-growing Prime Video service.

We are responsible for DNS, network routing, authentication, security, and availability protections. We are leading innovations with AWS technologies that are breaking new ground for Prime Video and Amazon globally. The members of the team are busy building the next generation of network edge capabilities to further power Prime Video’s growth and capabilities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience operating and maintaining production software.
· Demonstrated best-practice software engineering including aspects of agile methodologies, unit testing, refactoring, code reviews, continuous build and deployment processes.
· An understanding of what it takes to design for high-availability.
· Familiarity with programming for high performance (e.g. concurrency, profiling and continual performance optimization).
· Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.

We offer a strong benefits package including healthcare. This is your opportunity to develop a rewarding career, work in a unique environment, and be part of a passionate and international team to work hard, have fun and make history!

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