Description
Would you like to help develop applications and services to deploy, configure, and operate one of the largest security video systems in the world? The Global Security Operations Video Infrastructure team is seeking a skilled Software Development Engineer to build the next generation of video infrastructure tools at Amazon.
The Global Security Operations Video Infrastructure team develops tools for deploying, managing, and configuring critical video security systems at Amazon operations sites. Our team builds custom applications that are used to deploy and configure these systems at hundreds of sites globally.
As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will build software that allows Amazon to get the most out of our deployed systems. You will help us find new ways to delight our internal customers through easy-to-use and highly performant internal applications for transmitting video data and managing the video infrastructure. You will enhance the functionality of existing systems, increase our ability to scale, and build new systems, contributing to all aspects of the software development lifecycle including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills to deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the team, you will help shape the roadmap of our internal tooling to drive speed of deployment and enhanced usability of our video infrastructure tools. You will:
Design, develop, deploy, and maintain innovative sotware solutions to deploy, configure, and enable our internal video infrastructure
Contribute to the technical direction of our offerings and solutions
Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
Work in an agile development environment, where you prioritize the highest value solutions for customers
A day in the life
Our team develops tools using AWS services to deploy, configure, and operate our global fleet of Video Management System (VMS) servers. We use Agile Scrum to track our project work, conducting biweekly sprint planning meetings and 3 standup meetings a week to coordinate efforts. We work closely with our internal stakeholders in both IT and Loss Prevention. Typical project work includes creating tools using AWS Systems Manager, S3, Lambda Functions, DynamoDB, and other AWS services for deploying and configuring the VMS fleet. Typical development work includes developing and deploying tools used by internal tech and non-tech teams.
About the team
The Video Management System (VMS) is a critical tool for ensuring the safety of Amazon associates and the security of our facilities. Our team's vision is to make sure the VMS infrastructure is easy to deploy, configured the same way at each site, highly available, and used to its full potential. We're a small, collaborative engineering team who overlap in responsibilities and project work. Plan to spend time working will teammates on building new tools for making our vision a reality, and on coordinating closely with stakeholders to ensure their needs are met by our team and our applications.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Nashville, TN, USA
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
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
Experience in video application development and the use of common video protocols such as WebRTC and RTSP
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