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Amazon Video | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | VISA | Software Engineer

I'm the Hiring Manager for the IPA(a pun on API) team at Amazon Prime Video. After you click the play button in our app, a huge number of services are used to provide the client with streaming video. Our team orchestrates, aggregates, and processes that data to provide the best experience for the customer's particular device.

We are looking for multiple engineers, from recent grad (or equivalent) to senior. Here's why you should consider joining our team!

* Flexibility of a Startup with Benefits of a Large Company

I come from a startup background and value personal responsibility. If you have errands or need to work from home, as long as the work is getting done it won't hurt the team. As a large company, Amazon also has excellent salaries/health insurance, and will provide visa/relocation assistance.

* Learning

I am very focused on my team's personal growth. We have started a library, we have brown bag/lunch & learn sessions, we have incredibly talented engineers who have weekly office hours, but we can always do more. Feel free to make suggestions!

* Scale

Prime Video operates on a tremendous scale - without giving exact numbers, we are responsible for close to 10% of the world's internet traffic! The challenges are vast and require strong design and architectures to scale cost-effectively.

Reach out to me directly with any questions, comments, or if you just want to say hi at `vmangla@amazon.com`!

Can you point to some resources that teach Java "the right way"? Without the cultural baggage? I need to learn it for a new job and I'm inundated with resources that I can't determine the quality of.

Why do you think you'd be locked in? To switch from twilio to your own service, it's one LOC client side, and setting up your server. I don't see what would lock you in. If you need to host your own TURN server, you need to host it somewhere where bandwidth is cheap, so NOT aws. You can any lightsail, DO, etc. However, with a VPS, you're subject to instabilities from other users, so you may want to get your own instances from Hetzner/OVH. This is a lot of overhead as you see, so only do it if it's worth it.

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I'd be interested in that! I wonder how much it would cost to just host and serve via s3...

Thank you for all these resources! I'm extremely interested in cleantech, my bachelor's was in Chemical Engineering, currently a software engineer. Can I email you some of my questions about the field in general?

How do you break into that? I'm a mid level software engineer looking to get into devops roles, and have been told by an ex-youtuber that I have a real knack for it.

When I applied, I was rejected for not having enough experience. I find tooling and devops extremely fun, but I'm not quite sure how to develop my talent. Do you have any advice?

Any suggestions on this quick programming? I'm a ChemE turned programmer, it would be a cool opportunity to explore. Feel free to email me, username @ gmail.

Pardon my ignorance, but would someone mind explaining, in a little more detail, when this software would be necessary, and perhaps other tools that do the same thing? Envoy seems like it does a lot, I'm just trying to wrap my head around it.

Have hope. Went through a similar experience. There's nothing wrong with retreating and regrouping at home. Set manageable goals, like getting out of bed before noon and eating two meals a day. Work your way up slowly. See a therapist who specialises in solutions based therapy.

Life is an experience. You've experienced the shitty part. You also deserve to experience the good parts. I told myself all the time "I want to see my potential". You should at least see yours, right?