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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