Software Engineer, Media Experience

Software Engineer on Amazon's Media Experience team, focused on building and maintaining asset management systems that store, manage, and render media assets for Amazon customers. This on-site role in Seattle, WA offers a salary range of USD 143,700 - 194,400 per year and requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, with at least one year of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain systems that scale with growing demand, ensuring reliability and high performance.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary Amazonians to ideate, design, and deliver innovative products and services to market.
• Engage with technical stakeholders across teams to solve problems, align on technical direction, and ensure systems operate at large scale and speed.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Two or more years in design or architecture of new or existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling concerns.
• At least one year in a software development engineer role or a related occupation.
• One or more years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tier, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• At least one year of object oriented design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Technologies

• C#
• C++
• Java
• Perl
• JavaScript

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with option for supplemental plans
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage

A Day in the Life

SDEs at Amazon tackle large-scale challenges that influence millions of customers, sellers, and products globally. This role seeks professionals who are motivated to create new products, features, and services from the ground up while navigating ambiguity and a fast-paced development cadence, where cycles are measured in weeks rather than years.

About the Team

Media Experience serves as Amazon's largest asset management system, delivering an end-to-end pipeline for uploading, organizing, and distributing digital media assets such as images, JavaScript, videos, and documents. It supports more than 3,000 teams across Amazon Retail websites, mobile apps, Alexa devices, Kindle, Prime Video, Fulfillment Center Systems, Amazon Lockers, and various subsidiary experiences including IMDb.