Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music, Partner Payments & Reporting

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 our team for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans artists and creators on a global scale. Learn more at Musics Partner Payments and Reporting team serves as the critical bridge between every listener and content partner building end-to-end platforms that process every play activity and deliver accurate on-time payments to music partners worldwide. These teams gather data from multiple internal sources enrich it through sophisticated data pipelines and deliver external reports while processing royalties at unprecedented scale using distributed systems and big data technologies. The teams are building multiple products from scratch to support Amazon Musics continued growth focusing on platforms that scale with business demands while solving some of the hardest technical problems in music licensing vendor royalties and partner data delivery.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Partner Payments and Reporting teams you will design and build scalable backend services that process streaming data at massive scale handling payment calculations and royalty distributions for music partners across multiple countries. You will develop and maintain data pipelines that gather enrich and transform data from multiple internal systems to generate accurate external datasets and reports for content partners. You will build end-to-end reporting platforms including critical data validations data lakes delivery systems and audit mechanisms to ensure payment accuracy and completeness. You will be solving distributed system challenges involving big data processing working at the limits of scale to handle billions of play activities and financial transactions.
You will collaborate across multiple teams including technology business and operational stakeholders to deliver projects that support music licensing requirements and contribute to platform innovation by building new systems from the ground up that anticipate future music licensing demands and enable continued business agility using Gen AI technologies. You will do this while ensuring data quality and reliability as the last line of defense between Amazon and external music partners maintaining the trust of labels publishers and collection societies worldwide

About the team
Come join a team thats building next generation business and financial automation tools to support licensing and payment business obligations leveraging the best in full-stack AWS technologies. We build critical systems to compute royalties disburse payments and provide analytical reporting to digital content partners worldwide.

Our team develops systems that simplify and automate complex royalty payment and accounting rules allowing us to eliminate financial risk and focus on delighting our customers. We strive to hold a high bar in paying our content partners accurately completely and on-time.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA San Francisco - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually