Software Engineer - Prime Video - Web Players, Prime Video Web Players
Job summaryDo you love movies? Are you intrigued about how The Matrix is streamed to a computer and recreated on the screen? Are you excited about building products for hundreds of millions of customers, including your friends and family?The Web Players team owns the Prime Video players on web browsers and embedded web views, Chromecast receiver app, and Windows devices.
The team is passionate about building an accessible player and has enabled features such as Watch Party's for enjoying movies with friends and family.
For Sport enthusiasts we support the live games experience obsess over high quality zero interruption streams.
Key job responsibilitiesSuccessful candidates for this position will have a background in TypeScript and Javascript.
Have familiarity with:
HTML5 video player developmentWidevine and PlayReady DRM technologiesDifferent video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, Progressive etc.
)Optimize player performanceCollaborate with other teams internally to resolve issues and facilitate playback integration.
Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.
The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter.
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently great digital media experiences to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.
A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
A day in the lifeEvery day we are innovating to enhance our customer experience for our little customers on Amazon Kids on Alexa Echo show devices to those who want to enjoy movies or tournaments on Prime Video.
As an engineer on the team you will work closely with Product management to develop and improve the Web Player experience.
Build SDKs to support player features such as accessibility.
Integrate and analyze video playback analytics solutions to continually optimize performance.
About the teamOur team enjoys a fast paced, highly collaborative environment.
To be successful, you will need to be flexible and entrepreneurial.
You work on big, creative ideas, and you are hands on with incremental features.
You are a true owner - you care about the customer experience deeply and you care about the long term sustainability of the product just as deep.
You create extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
The team is passionate about building an accessible player and has enabled features such as Watch Party's for enjoying movies with friends and family.
For Sport enthusiasts we support the live games experience obsess over high quality zero interruption streams.
Key job responsibilitiesSuccessful candidates for this position will have a background in TypeScript and Javascript.
Have familiarity with:
HTML5 video player developmentWidevine and PlayReady DRM technologiesDifferent video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, Progressive etc.
)Optimize player performanceCollaborate with other teams internally to resolve issues and facilitate playback integration.
Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, gain new skills, create reliable & maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.
The ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally is a key competency as is demonstrable skill as a self-starter.
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about delivering consistently great digital media experiences to our customers, particularly those who want to grow within a world-class engineering team.
A commitment to team work, hustle, and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements.
Creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems.
A day in the lifeEvery day we are innovating to enhance our customer experience for our little customers on Amazon Kids on Alexa Echo show devices to those who want to enjoy movies or tournaments on Prime Video.
As an engineer on the team you will work closely with Product management to develop and improve the Web Player experience.
Build SDKs to support player features such as accessibility.
Integrate and analyze video playback analytics solutions to continually optimize performance.
About the teamOur team enjoys a fast paced, highly collaborative environment.
To be successful, you will need to be flexible and entrepreneurial.
You work on big, creative ideas, and you are hands on with incremental features.
You are a true owner - you care about the customer experience deeply and you care about the long term sustainability of the product just as deep.
You create extensible design and easy to maintain solutions with the long term vision in mind.
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Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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