The Systems Development Engineer role at Amazon focuses on bridging traditional media workflows with modern cloud infrastructure to enhance film and television production. The Production Platform Engineering team is dedicated to transforming post-production workflows by leveraging AWS services. This position involves solving complex technical challenges that impact high-budget productions and ensuring seamless collaboration among creative teams. The role emphasizes ownership, technical depth, and customer obsession in delivering innovative solutions for media production.

• Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
• Experience in systems administration, network administration, AWS cloud app development, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
• 2+ years of networking experience including DNS, DHCP, SSL, OSI Model, and TCP/IP.
• Knowledge of security best practices.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and tools such as CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform.
• Experience with distributed systems at scale.
• Experience with a variety of digital media workflows and post production.
• Knowledge of ProTools or other audio or video editing software.

• Build new cloud-native capabilities for VFX rendering and management, sound mixing, QC, mastering, delivery, and remote production workflows.
• Improve and scale existing Editorial, Dailies, Color, and Conform workflows supporting active productions.
• Translate complex post-production workflows into infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation or CDK.
• Troubleshoot production-impacting issues across the full stack, from network configurations to application-level bugs.
• Design and implement solutions using AWS compute, storage, and networking services optimized for high-throughput media workloads.
• Build secure infrastructure following AWS best practices for encryption, IAM policies, VPC design, and authentication mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Product Management and internal Production Technology teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Automate operational tasks and build self-service tools that empower production teams.

• 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.