Amazon
Software Dev Engineer III, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS)
$168K–$262K
Santa Clara, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Mar 20, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in professional software development, programming, and leading design or architecture; preferred: 5+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Designs and builds large-scale, low-latency real-time video distribution systems and streaming protocols for Amazon IVS.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize WebRTC distribution components and diagnose transport behavior across UDP and TCP-based protocols.
- Shape real-time media delivery architecture and contribute to protocol design, including Media over QUIC (MoQ).
- Profile and improve system performance; mentor engineers, review code, and support service reliability through on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go, plus deep understanding of WebRTC architecture, including signaling, ICE, DTLS, SRTP, and media negotiation.
Nice to have
- 5+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; contributions to open-source networking or media projects.
Pay
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary) [USA, CA, SAN FRANCISCO]; 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary) [USA, CA, SANTA CLARA]; 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary) [USA, WA, Seattle]
Tools
WebRTC, UDP, TCP, Media over QUIC (MoQ), Scala, Java, Python, C/C++
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