Live Infra Systems Engineer, Live Operations Infrastructure, Prime Video

Amazon • Culver City, CA

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About The Position

Prime Video's Live Infrastructure team is looking for a passionate, results-oriented, hard-working and operationally focused Systems Admin Engineer to support the fast evolving and expanding video eco-system, especially for live events and 24/7 linear channels. You will have an enormous opportunity to work within multiple systems analyzing and identifying the common issues, and driving the teams towards resolution to have a positive impact on customer experience. This job requires you to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks. The Live Infrastructure team delivers consistent, elite customer experiences which "just work" for everyday consumers. We build and maintain reliable, high performance live experiences, and we take ownership of the end-to-end live streaming experience— from the venue, through our encoding and delivery platform, out through PV's client applications. Our team makes a big impact because nothing is more important to us than pleasing our customers, continually earning their trust, and thinking long term. If you crave a sense of ownership, this is the place to be. As a Live Infra Systems Engineer you will build and scale our current infrastructure as well as designing and delivering new tools supporting our video business. You will also have responsibility of the day to day Engineering and Administration of large scale distributed systems. You will guide the organization and implement best practices to deliver on operational improvements as well as design and architect solutions that scale. Additionally, you will own a global hardware stack. Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

Requirements

• 2+ years of Linux systems administration and/or development experience
• 1+ years of work in at least two of these languages: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby or Bash/Shell experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical degree or related experience
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience working in a 24/7 production environment
• Experience in Linux systems administration and/or development
• Experience working in at least two of these languages: Python, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby or Bash/Shell
• 2+ years of site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration experience
• 1+ years of building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments experience
• Knowledge of configuration management systems, such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or related systems
• Experience in site reliability engineering (SRE), systems engineering, systems administration, DevOps, security administration, or network administration
• Experience in network capture and systems troubleshooting
• Experience building scripts, tooling, and automation for large-scale computing environments

Responsibilities

• build and scale our current infrastructure
• designing and delivering new tools supporting our video business
• responsibility of the day to day Engineering and Administration of large scale distributed systems
• guide the organization and implement best practices to deliver on operational improvements
• design and architect solutions that scale
• own a global hardware stack

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level