Description

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is AWS's fully managed live streaming service, built on the same battle-tested technology that powers Twitch and trusted by thousands of enterprises across gaming, social, live commerce, sports, and entertainment.

Our mission: enable developers to build communities around live video. We handle everything from ingest to processing to delivery at global scale, so developers can focus on creating interactive, engaging live experiences for their audiences. Whether you're streaming to tens of millions of concurrent viewers or just getting started, Amazon IVS removes the complexity so developers can move fast.

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon IVS Control Plane team, you will build highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems that orchestrate real-time video infrastructure at AWS scale. Your work will directly enable developers, broadcasters, and businesses around the world to deliver low-latency, interactive video experiences.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and develop backend services and public APIs for the Amazon Interactive Video Service.
- Build distributed systems that manage configuration, orchestration, and lifecycle of live video streaming resources using Go, TypeScript, or similar modern programming languages
- Define and maintain service infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices, primarily with AWS CDK.
- Work closely with backend engineers, frontend engineers, product managers, and applied scientists to deliver seamless customer experiences
- Ensure backend systems are highly available, scalable, and secure at AWS scale
- Apply backend best practices including testing, performance optimization, observability, and maintainable code
- Collaborate with other AWS service teams to integrate shared services and deliver consistent AWS service experiences
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and on-call rotations
- Drive operational excellence through automation, metrics, alarms, and runbooks

About the team
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) is a managed live streaming solution from AWS that enables low-latency and real-time video experiences for millions of viewers worldwide. We power engaging live experiences for some of the largest customers in the live video space and continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible with interactive video technology.