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.
At Amazon Music, big data fuels the growth of our business. The Metrics and Data Platform organization enables easy, deep, and repeatable analysis of Music customer data. We obsess over making it easy to quickly collect high quality data, manage the behavioral event model, and empower Amazon teams to build responsive and data-driven customer experiences. Our mission is to empower all teams at Amazon Music to make informed decisions and confidently measure their results using high quality, reliable, and timely data.
If you love the challenges that come with client-side application development across mobile, web, and backend, then this role is perfect for you. We collect billions of daily customer signals and own tier-1 services to collect, process, serve, and monitor events in real time. We are embarking on a new journey to build cross-platform analytics SDKs and looking for a candidate to up-level how we design, build, and launch SDKs and consistently instrument applications with behavioral and telemetry data. This role is perfect for a candidate seeking to expand their expertise beyond application development to high-throughput backend engineering.
You are an experienced and passionate full stack Software Development Engineer who wants to solve complex problems at the intersection of client and backend engineering. Working alongside highly motivated engineers on a well-established team, you"ll tackle greenfield opportunities with high leadership visibility. The role centers on cross-platform SDK development: building robust, production-grade instrumentation libraries using Kotlin Multiplatform and TypeScript that run across mobile (iOS, Android), web, and backend applications. These SDKs feature intuitive APIs that make it effortless for application teams to instrument their code and collect high-quality behavioral data. As the platform matures, you"ll design and build foundational telemetry capabilities serving 100+ Amazon teams, while also contributing to tier-1 backend services that process billions of daily events and self-service tools that empower teams to onboard their applications within minutes and evolve the event model. This is a unique opportunity to bring your mobile and client development expertise to a team that is expanding into cross-platform SDK development, enabling us to better understand our customers.
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About the team
We own the design, collection, processing, and serving of all Amazon Music behavioral data. We serve 100+ Amazon teams by operating tier-1 services that ingest and route billions of daily events, vending cross-platform SDKs to instrument applications, and managing an event model schema repository that ensures data quality and consistency. You will work with highly motivated engineers who have diverse expertise in backend infrastructure and data engineering, are actively learning cross-platform client development, and are constantly curious about learning new skills and technologies. This is a well-established team with mixed tenure and many greenfield opportunities, as we expand our charter from events collection to all types of telemetry data and cross-platform SDKs.