Software Development Engineer, PV App Resiliency

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PV App Resiliency team has the mission to protect the PV content discovery experience against outages in critical PV software. Our vision is to decouple the availability of the core customer journey from the real time availability of the PV services which support that journey, to ensure our customers can always access the Prime Video experience despite any ongoing software outages.

We build and work with the latest technologies, primarily AWS, to implement highly durable and automated resiliency and disaster recovery mechanisms for the Prime Video customer experience. Our solutions include software for- (1) measuring critical experience availability, (2) circuit breaker technologies for fault isolation in critical service failures, (3) automated monitoring of PV services, and (4) automated fallback solutions to ensure customers have a functional PV experience while a critical service is down.

As a member of the team, you will get to collaborate with senior engineers across a large cross-section of Prime Video technical stack, to propose and drive cross-system designs and implementations. There is ample of opportunity for growth due to the high visibility work, and presence of senior engineering talent for guidance and mentorship.

About the Team
The team is new but consists of passionate and fun engineers. The management is stable and the leadership has been in the space for years.

Internal job description
We own defining our own charter and roadmap. As our systems directly improve end user availability, the majority of our projects have interest and visibility across senior leadership.

Basic qualifications
Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
1+ years of experience in software development

Preferred qualifications
Enjoys API Design and Scaling
Enjoys TV and Movies
Excellent problem solving skills
Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role

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