Senior Software Development Engineer

Amazon Lab126, a subsidiary of Amazon.com founded in 2004, is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their innovative team. This role focuses on building advanced tools and services for video content onboarding and delivery systems, ensuring high quality standards across the platform. The position involves working with both open source and proprietary technologies to develop and maintain video quality end-to-end (E2E) solutions.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about quality and enthusiastic about digital products, with strong programming skills and experience in media streaming frameworks. You'll be responsible for researching advanced techniques for identifying and correcting video content defects while ensuring robust, efficient, and scalable content ingestion, encoding, packaging, and publishing systems.

Working at Amazon Lab126 offers the opportunity to contribute to high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire TV, and Echo. The role combines technical expertise with creative problem-solving, as you'll be involved in projects from conception through launch. You'll work closely with application teams, interface with vendors and partners, and help shape the future of Amazon's media technologies.

The position requires expertise in embedded systems, media formats, and streaming technologies, with preferred experience in Android media architecture, DRM, and content protection schemes. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented engineer who wants to make an impact on products used by millions of customers worldwide.