Software Development Engineer, IMDb API Gateway
DESCRIPTION
Do you love building highly scalable distributed systems solutions used by millions of people every day? Are you passionate about Movies, TV Shows, and Celebrities? If so, come join our world-class IMDb API-Gateway team. We are building highly available, fault-tolerant, low-latency, flexible, and scalable federated GraphQL distributed solutions, enabling other IMDb teams to quickly stitch services and data into compelling user experiences. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV, and celebrity content, reaching an audience of over 250 million unique visitors per month. We sit at the unique intersection of entertainment, media, and technology, within the world's most innovative and customer-centric company – Amazon.com. IMDb employees enjoy all the benefits and resources of Amazon, along with the autonomy and impact of a small, nimble team.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for owning one or more key initiatives to develop and enhance the next-generation GraphQL API-Gateway architecture that serves as a unified entry point for serving the diverse needs of our first-party, second-party, and third-party customers, while collaborating across the entire IMDb scope. Your primary responsibilities will include:
* Collaborating closely with other IMDb teams, including frontend developers and backend engineers, as well as Amazon teams such as Fire TV, Prime Video, and third-party customers, to understand customer needs and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
* Working with your manager and other engineers to develop the technical vision and roadmap.
* Owning the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
* Monitoring and troubleshooting the GraphQL API-Gateway infrastructure, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and issues.
* Championing operational, technical, and process improvements.
* Keeping up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the GraphQL ecosystem, and advocating for their adoption when appropriate.
* Mentoring and guiding other team members, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment within the team.
A day in the life
You will be solving challenging technical problems in areas of load balancing, horizontal scaling, data partitioning, replication, consistency models, failure handling mechanisms, orchestration tools, messaging queues, distributed databases, and caching while designing and implementing highly scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and performant distributed systems. You will define three-year roadmaps, design and implement creative technical solutions, deliver features our customers love, and mentor junior engineers. You will work closely with senior and principal engineers and lead the team to reach new heights in engineering innovative solutions, testing, and operational excellence, and drive best practices across the organization.
About the team
We are a diverse team of engineers that owns a scalable and performant architecture for a federated GraphQL API-Gateway, which acts as the central entry point for managing requests from various clients to a collection of backend Graphlets. Our mission is to optimize IMDb's federated GraphQL gateway resilience, latency, and cost profiles while enabling IMDb to achieve new business opportunities with customer authorization and flexible architecture. We also aim to provide seamless integration and flexible GraphQL infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of the backend and frontend teams. Our team embraces a people-centric approach that values team happiness, psychological safety, work-life balance, diversity, and aligning individual talents with roles, while simultaneously striving for productivity through efficient processes and prioritization.
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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
- Solid experience in developing and launching distributed, highly scalable software solutions for a global audience.
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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 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.