AmazonSoftware Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane
Amazon is hiring a Software Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane in Seattle, United States. It pays $165k-$224k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include TypeScript, Go and AWS Cdk.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 22,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
- The role was posted within the past two weeks.
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Software Development Engineer building control plane systems and user interfaces for Amazon Interactive Video Service.
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, built on the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch and trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment.
Our mission: enable developers to build communities around live video. We handle everything from ingest to processing to delivery at global scale, so developers can focus on creating interactive, engaging live experiences for their audiences. Whether you're streaming to tens of millions of concurrent viewers or just getting started, Amazon IVS removes the complexity so developers can move fast.
About The Role
As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon IVS Control Plane team, you will build customer-facing experiences and highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems that power Amazon IVS.
The IVS Console is the primary interface through which customers configure, monitor, and manage their IVS resources, while the IVS Control Plane provides the APIs and backend systems that orchestrate those resources at AWS scale. You will work across both to build seamless end-to-end experiences for IVS customers. Your work will directly empower developers, broadcasters, and businesses around the world to deliver low-latency, interactive video experiences.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop intuitive user interfaces for the IVS Console using modern web technologies
- Design and develop scalable backend services and public APIs for Amazon IVS
- Build distributed systems that manage the configuration, orchestration, and lifecycle of live video streaming resources using TypeScript, Go or similar modern programming languages
- Define and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure as code practices, primarily with AWS CDK
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, UX designers, and applied scientists to deliver seamless customer experiences
- Ensure systems are highly available, scalable, and secure at AWS scale
- Apply engineering best practices across testing, performance optimization, observability, and code quality
- Collaborate with other AWS teams to integrate shared services and deliver consistent customer experiences across AWS services
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and on-call rotations
- Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks
A day in the life
You might start the morning by checking how the service is running and investigating an issue that surfaced overnight. Later, you could join a design discussion for a new customer feature, thinking through the experience from the public API, console, all the way to the backend systems that make it work. After lunch, you might work through an interesting technical problem with a teammate, review a change, or meet with product to refine how a feature should work for customers. Some days are focused on building intuitive customer experiences, while others take you deep into distributed systems and large scale service operations. You’ll have the opportunity to follow problems across the stack and see the features you build through from idea to launch.
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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience building web applications with React and modern web technologies
- Experience with both frontend and backend development
- Experience building backend services using Go or similar modern programming languages
- Experience building/designing UIs with multilingual support in mind
- Experience with frontend security best practices
Preferred qualifications
- 4+ 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, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Familiarity with live video concepts: common streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs
- Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments
- Experience working with NoSQL data stores such as DynamoDB, Redis, or similar distributed databases.
- Experience with UX design is a strong plus.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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How we rate this
Software Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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