Software Development Engineer II, Retail Music Experience, Music Technology

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer II (SDE II), you'll lead engineering design and development with a team of engineers and product partners. To succeed in this role, you believe in high standards for code quality, code reviews, testing, and operational excellence. You create mechanisms for achieving results and iterating improvements and can lead projects end to end while working with and through other engineers to deliver results, with the autonomy to build the right solution from Day One. As an SDE II with our team, you will collaborate with other engineers on technical design and strategy with a career opportunity for growth that only Amazon can offer.
About the team
We are Retail Music Experience team owning S-team goal to improve ranking and relevance for music intent queries on Amazon retail and build a world class CX to discover music artists on retail.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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