Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
About the team
At Amazon Music, big data is fueling the growth of our business. The Music Privacy & Compliance team is at the fore-front of this growth with platforms and services for facilitating and enabling consumer data privacy. Our team’s mission is to enable Amazon Music teams to proactively respond to consumer privacy laws through large-scale, big data processing workflows. Our systems and workflows focus on building resilient, multi-tenant, secure, and extensible tools and platforms using state of the art technologies. We work on some of the hardest challenges in real time streaming, big data processing, and data analytics on technologies like AWS Kinesis, SQS/SNS, Lambda, Apache Spark, S3, CloudWatch, and various other internal Amazon tools. We are looking for a highly-motivated engineers to help turn Amazon Music’s data into an information advantage. We are a team of rockstars and driven engineers.
If you love the challenges that come with real-time streaming, distributed processing, operational monitoring, timely analysis, and enjoy working with other engineers on data-driven business problems, then this role is for you. You are a talented, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented software developer who wants to work on projects that require innovative thinking, deep technical problem solving, building trust, and mentoring other engineers. You value data-driven decision making and understand that the foundation of good decisions is good data. Most importantly, you are an expert in developing highly scalable and fault-tolerant services and have some experience working with behavioral time series data.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ 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 or equivalent
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.