Sr Live Solution Architect, Live Streaming, Prime Video

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, Peacock, Fox One 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!


Key job responsibilities
Prime Video is currently seeking a Sr Live Solution Architect to work with video content providers, video streaming technology partners and broadcast networks for integration of live sports, Music, news and live television channels onto Prime Video. This role will focus on developing strong technical partnership with live broadcasters, cable networks, live media solution providers, AWS and Prime Video engineering teams. The Sr Live Solution Architect will design and improve the specifications and workflows for acquisition and ingestion of live video content while driving large scale innovation in the live video space at Prime Video. This role also represents Prime Video to the wider digital video industry, contributing to working groups and helping to define future live broadcast standards.

The ideal candidate for this role will have in-depth knowledge of live video broadcast and related industry standards, and have a proven track record of working on scalable solutions for the ingestion and processing for live video.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- Knowledge of cloud architecture
- Knowledge of digital video landscape, including solid understanding of digital video distribution technologies including Live video ingestion and/or distribution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working with end user or developer communities
- Knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Experience working at a TV Network, broadcaster, or an online streaming platform, specializing in digital video delivery or streaming media technologies

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