The Amazon Optics Video team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to build and operate the core video services that secure Amazon's physical sites worldwide. You will design, develop, and maintain production services that power video streaming, recording, and camera management for over 300,000 cameras globally.
Your work directly protects every Amazon data center, corporate office, and facility. You will build systems that enable security operators to stream live video, record continuously, manage cameras at scale, and extract image frames on demand.
Key job responsibilities
Design, implement, and deploy features across nine (9) production video services including cloud-based streaming, continuous recording, on-premises recording, camera lifecycle management, and image extraction.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code in a production environment serving security-critical workloads.
Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for video infrastructure across all regions.
Collaborate with customer groups spanning Data Center Security, Security Operations Centers, Analytics, and infrastructure teams.
Contribute to architecture decisions across cloud and edge computing, working with services spanning AWS (S3, CloudFront, ECS, EC2, Kinesis) and embedded applications running on camera hardware.
Drive automation to reduce operational burden. Every feature must reduce the number of humans required to onboard or troubleshoot a site.
Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and operational readiness reviews.
A day in the life
The Video team sits within Amazon Optics, the organization responsible for physical security technology across all Amazon sites. The team owns the full video lifecycle: camera provisioning, live streaming, cloud and on-premises recording, and image extraction. Team members are distributed across the US with concentration in the DMV area, New York, and Nashville.
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
- 1+ 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
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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
- Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS
- Experience with video streaming or media delivery systems
- Experience with edge computing, embedded systems, or IoT device management
- Experience with camera protocols (RTSP, ONVIF) or video codecs (H.264/H.265)
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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