Software Development Engineer II, Prime Video Web Players

Job description

Do you love movies? Are you intrigued about how “The Boys” is streamed to a computer and recreated on the screen? Are you excited about building products for hundreds of millions of customers, including your friends and family? The Web Players team owns the Prime Video players on web browsers, embedded web views, and the Chromecast receiver app. We build everything from the player UI down to integrating with browser media APIs. The team is passionate about building an accessible player and has enabled features such as Next Up, in-playback broadcast switching, and playback on the Amazon.com home page. For Sport enthusiasts we support live games experiences such as Thursday Night Football and UEFA Champions League, obsessing over high-quality zero interruption streams. Key job responsibilities Successful candidates for this position will have a background in TypeScript and JavaScript. Have familiarity with: * HTML5 video player development. * Widevine and PlayReady DRM technologies. * Different video delivery methods (DASH, HLS, etc.). * Optimizing player performance. * Collaborating with other teams to resolve issues and facilitate playback integration. Equally important to these specific skills is a candidate's ability to multi-task, adapt quickly to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new…