Sr. Software Development Engineer, Rust, Live Events, Prime Video

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices.

U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.

TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership.

More than 200 million Prime members in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers.

You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

Our vision is to be the world's most fan-centric Sport company and for Sports entertainment. Join us in building the next generation user interface for Living Room Devices.

Who we are :

Our team is responsible for Prime Video Sports Live Event experiences. We are coders and crafts people who care as much about how things look and feel as to the way they function and perform.

We seek diverse perspectives and create accessible experiences for all people to enjoy. We strive to move fast for customers but prioritize long term decisions that will scale as we grow.

We're looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer who is passionate about building compelling app experiences. The ideal candidate will be excited by simple and elegant software solutions, customer-centric products, cutting-edge features, and getting solutions in front of our millions of customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Strong background working with Rust.
• Solid time management and communication skills.
• Brings strong opinions, but loosely held. (Lets best idea rise to the top.)
• Comfort adapting to new development environments and changing business requirements, learning new systems, creating reliable / maintainable code, and finding creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems.

A day in the life

What you’ll do :

• Own architecture and feature development for Live Event customer experiences on Living Room Devices (Roku, Xbox, etc.) in Rust.
• Mentor and provide guidance to teammates helping them become productive contributors.
• Partner with other engineers to ideate, design, and build scalable software solutions.
• Drive test and release automations to increase system reliability and speed to market.
• Collaborate with product managers to influence decisions that deliver customer value.
• Shape the future of Amazon’s Prime Video on living room.

About the team

Prime Video Sports CX :

Our team focuses on customer-facing, high-visibility, high-impact projects to improve the customer experience for live events.

As a relatively new team, there is very little on-call work, operational burden, or tech debt to deal with, so we can focus on feature development.

This is an opportunity to build from the ground up on a new client technology from the ground up.

PV Live Events provides the opportunity to design and build new full stack features end-to-end. Our technology focuses on real time event based native AWS services and emerging front end platforms for the living room.

Our team has access to multiple PEs and SDE IIIs within Live Events as well as across Prime Video to regularly engage with.

They provide mentorship and support for career progression of our team members.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Arlington, VA, USA

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
30+ days ago