Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Optics
$144K–$214K
New York, NY +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Annapolis Junction, MD
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 1+ years large-scale software development and 1+ years Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Build and operate production video services for streaming, recording, camera management, and image extraction across Amazon facilities worldwide.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and deploy features across production video services.
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve operational excellence through automation.
- Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams on architecture, code reviews, and operational readiness.
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.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience and programming experience with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience with AWS, video systems, edge computing, embedded systems, IoT, camera protocols, or video codecs.
Pay
USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, S3, CloudFront, ECS, EC2, Kinesis, C#, C++
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