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Software Dev Engineer II

Amazon· Amazon Data Services, Inc. / Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)
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Hybrid (SAN FRANCISCO), Hybrid (SANTA CLARA), Hybrid (Seattle)$165.2k - $223.6kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Software engineer on the IVS Stream Management team responsible for designing and building distributed systems that start and manage live streams for millions of viewers, with focus on availability, scalability, and operational excellence across AWS-scale workloads.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • 5+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureBackend development

Benefits

  • base salary plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • 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
  • parential leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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