And if you are looking for really cool jobs in which you can apply all your distributed systems and cloud skills on amazingly interesting products, beyond just video streaming, check out Amazon.com (75+ pages of 20 jobs per page in software development alone)...
Well given we're doing this here now for anyone that takes advantage of AWS... ;)
I'm looking for engineers and UX people to come help me make the Heroku Add-ons platform even more amazing. If putting these cloud services into the hands of developers and changing the way people think about provisioning these services sounds like something you'd like to be part of: glenn at heroku dot com
What's it worth to do great work if you can't live in a great city? Amazon's Development Center in Cape Town, South Africa is situated in the heart of the Mother City, and is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Table Mountain - you can't get better views. Combine this with never-ending beaches and sunny weather and you have the perfect work and play environment.
We build software for AWS and are looking for all sorts of engineers: from kernel development to building great web front-ends for our customers. Check out http://www.amazon.co.za/ for more info.
As one of my colleagues mentioned, we are hiring (currently 516 open jobs on the AWS team). Here's a list that's easier to read:
http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/jobs/all_aws_jobs_list.html