Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Making great content available to customers, with high availability is just one part of the puzzle. Experimenting with different ways of making this content available to customers is equally important.
Linear (24/7 Television or broadcast programming) is one of the key options for Prime Video customers. Although video on demand is on the rise, the global viewing hours weighs in favor of live or scheduled TV and OTT linear streaming is predicted to grow by 64% in next two years. We in Prime Video Catalog are building next gen linear catalog systems to provide best-in-class Linear TV experience to Prime Video customers. It is Day 1 for the linear TV experience on Prime Video.
This is your opportunity to take an active role in shaping the future of digital video by defining the next generation of what Amazon customers are watching. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.

We are looking for strong developers who are passionate about delivering excellent, digital media experiences to our customers. It is an opportunity to work with Principal and senior engineers to build high-speed data delivery systems, and creating simple solutions for the complex media ingestion and publishing processes.

Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in C++/Java, Python and/or SQL while experience with ElasticSearch, AWS services including Dynamo, SQS, Athena will help you contribute quickly. Equally important to these specific skills are a candidate's ability to multi-task, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable/maintainable code, find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems, and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally.

Key job responsibilities
You'll be helping to lead the Linear Mobile Client team's transition to owning it's own mobile experience.

This role will be expected to be comfortable in both Android and iOS environments. While it's fine to have a specialty, they will be working in both platform.

Additionally, experience with Fire TV (Android-based platform) is also quite helpful.

A day in the life
The day starts with a quick email and slack check to see if there's been any . You're team meetings will start with a standup at 9:30 a.m. PST, led by one of your peers. Often you'll spin off with another developer or your manager to deep dive on a question you might have had before.

Before lunch, you might connect with a product manager to go over a project update and make sure we're that aligned for a big launch next week.

Take a break and grab some lunch. You'll be working from home, so maybe a nice walk?

You're afternoon's will be spent building. You'll be working on docs, reviewing code and pushing you're own CR's. After a final push to you're remote branch, you'll log off for the day.