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Amazon

Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)

$144K–$224K

SANTA CLARA, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026

Location
SANTA CLARA, CA
Seattle, WA
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Experience
3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 5+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl. Preferred: 3+ years full software development life cycle experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Designs and operates distributed backend systems that coordinate live stream sessions and support Amazon IVS at global scale.

What you'll do

  • Own service technical direction, write design documents, and drive designs through implementation.
  • Build highly available, scalable, secure backend systems; improve testing, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Coordinate with partner teams and lead code and design reviews, on-call work, and high-severity incident follow-up.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years designing and developing large-scale applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Familiarity with live video concepts and real-time media streaming, including HLS, DASH, WebRTC, or MOQ; experience implementing AWS services in distributed computing environments.

Pay

165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

C#, C++, Java, Perl, HLS, DASH, WebRTC, MOQ

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First seen Oct 20, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)