Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Live is revolutionizing online shopping through interactive livestream experiences, helping customers discover exciting products while enabling content creators to build engaging content and community. Experience it at:
As a Software Engineer on the Amazon Live Creator and Data Services Team, you'll be at the forefront of AI innovation and scalable service development. You'll build the infrastructure powering interactive shopping experiences through our Live creator mobile app, with significant opportunities to shape our AI-driven future.
Key Technical Initiatives:
- Develop AI solutions to streamline Creator workflows
- Create intelligent systems to improve content quality and engagement
- Design and implement integrations with Amazon's advertising ecosystem
- Champion the use of AI tools to increase team efficiency and output
You'll leverage your expertise in distributed computing, scalable architecture, and performance optimization while working with the latest AI/ML technologies. If you're passionate about combining video technology with artificial intelligence, and want to work in a collaborative environment on a strategic initiative that's shaping the future of e-commerce, join our team today!
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement large-scale distributed backend systems and RESTful APIs, focusing on high availability and fault tolerance
- Identify and implement AI-driven solutions for common development challenges
- Drive technical decisions and provide architectural guidance for complex systems serving millions of users
- Collaborate with UX designers, Product Managers, Applied Scientists, and other Software Engineers to create intuitive and seamless user experiences
- Lead performance optimization initiatives across the stack, ensuring systems meet strict latency and reliability requirements
- Mentor junior engineers, champion engineering excellence, and foster a culture of innovation and best practices
A day in the life
You will work on building features that enable AI-based tools for creators and brands, video ingestion, stream management, and content categorization to better serve our Amazon viewers with quality streams. As an AI advocate, you'll also leverage and champion various AI tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity, automate routine tasks, and streamline development workflows. You will bring your expertise and ideas in the areas of distributed computing, scalable architecture, UI and mobile design, performance optimization, and metrics reporting to help our fast-paced business grow and evolve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7+ 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
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