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Software Engineer for Fire TV Linear Catalog will help build next-gen, low-latency systems to ingest, store, refine and deliver content for Fire TV Browse and Discovery experiences around events, linear programming and live sports around the world.

Fire TV's core experience is highly engaging and innovative for VOD content today. It is how millions of people watch, share, and enjoy TV every day. The systems that power this experience are undergoing a substantial revamp to extend this much-loved content-forward experience to linear programming, live events and sports. Linear programming continues to be a very large and active form of content streaming and engagement by customers worldwide, even with the acceleration of cord-cutting. Sports accounted of 97 of the top-100 most watched broadcasts in the US in 2023. Future Fire TV experience will blur the boundaries between linear and VOD, live and on-demand.

Software Engineer will join a team dedicated towards building highly scalable data processing and knowledge inference systems that process large data, produce insights and sculpt bespoke broad industry data presentations into a uniform and enriched digital media catalog. Your customers will be both third-party linear and sports data providers as well as Fire TV end users.

You will be responsible for developing new features and system components to help build new ways for consumers to engage with Fire TV. You will inform the team's roadmap, lead functional design efforts and help build systems that mutate and evolve elegantly with the changing trends of streaming industry. You will work closely with product managers and other engineers to deliver key initiatives that impact millions of customers.

Key job responsibilities

• Create and improve software for content ingestion, curation and aggregation for FireTV devices

• Explore and deploy technologies including machine learning, distributed data processing, data processing at scale with high uptime and AWS-managed services to enable the development of breakthrough customer experiences.

• Contribute towards shaping the next-gen digital media catalog solution that drives best-in-class customer experience on FireTV.

• Review, scope and collaborate with team members to prioritize features requested by stakeholders or which are necessary to scale the cloud systems

• Drive continuous improvements with the team’s processes and practices

• Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the team's ability to deliver

• Mentor junior engineers, and participate in the hiring process for open roles within our organization

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

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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.