Join the AWS Elemental Inference team, we're looking for a curious, empathetic Software Development Engineer II who is passionate about AI-driven video processing technologies and excited to work on challenging problems at scale. In this role, you'll contribute to building robust, scalable video processing systems while growing your technical skills in a supportive environment that values innovation, collaboration, and work-life balance.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with applied scientists and research teams to bring innovations to life, translating breakthrough research into production-ready systems that serve customers at scale. You'll be regularly reviewing and implementing the latest advancements in machine learning, computer vision, and video understanding.

Key job responsibilities
- Shipping production code to solve complex problems in video encoding and AI-driven video processing, ensuring our LIVE and VOD workflows are robust and reliable.
- Working with product management and developers to design and drive the delivery of new AI-powered customer features, translating innovative ideas into operational software.
- Devising solutions to improve the performance, scalability, and resiliency of our services, including automated tools that leverage machine learning for content optimization.
- Participating in code reviews and design reviews to help the team identify sharp edges, look around corners, follow best practices, and improve the quality of their code.
- Mentoring team members through the design and implementation of new features and service improvements, with a focus on best practices in AI workflow design and MLOps.
- Helping with operational tooling and improvements, including coming up with metrics and dashboards to monitor our AI-enhanced systems and ensure smooth, real-time processing at scale.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually