Contract Amazon Software Engineer Jobs in Riverside, CA

The Amazon Luna team is leveraging the power of the cloud to enable customers to stream games on their existing devices. Luna represents an exciting and truly new product and business, with a high degree of innovation, and an opportunity to reach a large volume of passionate customers.
As a Software Development Engineer working on the core streaming engineering for Luna, you will combine your passion for gaming, AWS, and building scalable tech for the next generation of cloud gaming. You will thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative start-up-like environment inside Amazon, driving innovative solutions from concept to production.
Key job responsibilities
- Own end-to-end software development: Design, implement, test, and operate scalable services that power Luna's streaming infrastructure.
- Drive rapid innovation: Develop quick proof-of-concepts, iterate on prototypes, and ship production-grade code while balancing cost, schedule, and performance.
- Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and QA to deliver consumer-facing features that meet both technical and business goals.
- Mentor and lead: Serve as a technical leader, guiding design decisions, code reviews, and best-practice adoption across the team.
- Operate at all levels: Dive deep into low-level details of Windows/Linux, Wine, Proton, and related stack components, in addition to streaming technologies while also providing strategic input for product direction.
A day in the life
- The Luna initiative is a fast-paced, highly collaborative start-up-like environment inside Amazon. Success requires flexibility, entrepreneurial spirit, and comfort with ambiguity. You will:
- Own projects from concept to production, delivering quick proof-of-concepts and iterating based on feedback.
- Dive deep into low-level system details to make stack components behave in novel ways.
- Strategic input: Provide technical insight on implementation direction.
- Collaborate regularly with colleagues across Amazon's businesses and services to align technical and business goals.
About the team
Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming service that makes it easy for anyone to play high-quality games on the devices they already own-including Fire TV and tablet devices, smartphones, tablets, web browsers, select smart televisions from LG and Samsung, and morewith no need to purchase new gaming consoles or equipment. Luna brings more than 50 games to Prime members at no additional cost, including GameNight, an evolving collection of more than 25 approachable, local multiplayer games designed to bring friends and family together in the living room. To play GameNight titles, simply scan a QR code on your TV and your smartphone becomes your controller. With simple and responsive touchscreen inputs and support for multiple local players, GameNight offers and easy and approachable way to play whether you're an experienced gamer of a casual fan.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Experience with video encoding and streaming media standards
- Experience in Linux/Wine/Proton software and operating system stack.
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USA, CA, Irvine - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually