Software Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane
AmazonSoftware Dev Engineer II - Full stack, Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS), Control Plane
AmazonLocation
Seattle, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
10/15/2026
Compensation
$143,700 - $223,600 per year
Job description
As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon IVS Control Plane team, you will focus on building customer-facing experiences and scalable systems that power Amazon IVS. Your work will involve creating intuitive user interfaces and backend services that enhance the live streaming experience for developers and businesses. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure high availability, security, and performance of the systems. This role offers the opportunity to work on both frontend and backend development in a dynamic environment.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
- 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
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience
- Familiarity with live video concepts including common streaming protocols, transcoding, and codecs
- Experience implementing AWS services in 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.
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.
Benefits
- 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.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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