Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we're just getting started.
PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We recently launched Prime Video's Ads offering in January 2024 and are continuing to launch new products and features for our customers. In the past we have helped launch Thursday Night Football and CBS All Access (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.
As an engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low latency/high throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion for Video on demand. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS and internal AWS incubator technologies.
You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.
Key job responsibilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
- Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
- Experience developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems, that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have, but is not required.
- Prior experience managing tier-1 services would be a nice to have, but is not required
Prime Video Ads team’s mission is to build a seamless ad delivery, playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We do this by building highly scaled, low latency services that fetch, ingest, stitch and deliver ads using industry leading video ad serving technologies.
PV Ads team owns services for ad ingestion, ad stitching and integrates with ad decision systems. Its services handle dynamic transcoding and ad insertions as part of video playback.
The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the live and vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level.
The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.
BASIC 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Job Tags
Full time, Internship, Worldwide, Night shift,