As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon IVS Control Plane team, you will focus on building scalable, reliable, and secure systems for real-time video infrastructure at AWS scale. The team is dedicated to enabling developers and businesses to deliver low-latency, interactive video experiences. You will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure seamless customer experiences while applying best practices in backend development. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a managed live streaming solution that powers engaging experiences for millions of viewers worldwide.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience scripting in modern programming languages or working with REST API based services
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards and operations experience
• Experience building services using AWS products
• Experience with NoSQL databases or Big Data architecture, including Hadoop

• Design and develop backend services and public APIs for the Amazon Interactive Video Service.
• Build distributed systems that manage configuration, orchestration, and lifecycle of live video streaming resources using Go, TypeScript, or similar modern programming languages.
• Define and maintain service infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices, primarily with AWS CDK.
• Work closely with backend engineers, frontend engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver seamless customer experiences.
• Ensure backend systems are highly available, scalable, and secure at AWS scale.
• Apply backend best practices including testing, performance optimization, observability, and maintainable code.
• Collaborate with other AWS service teams to integrate shared services and deliver consistent AWS service experiences.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and on-call rotations.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.