Live Ops Support Engineer, Prime Video, Live Playback Operations
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The Live Playback Operations team is seeking a Support Engineer to own the operation and end‑to‑end monitoring of live events on Prime Video. The role involves working with internal and external partners to ensure the video signal for each event is received, routed through our encoding/packaging infrastructure, and successfully delivered to customer devices at our fully‑equipped, industry‑leading operations centers.
Prime Video is the first‑stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios‑produced series and movies, licensed fan favorites, and programming from Prime Video add‑on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best‑in‑class digital video experiences. As a Prime Video Live Operations Support Engineer, you’ll have end‑to‑end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state‑of‑the‑art experiences for our customers. You’ll work on fast‑paced, challenging, and varied projects, experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with peers and other teams on high‑severity, active support issues, prioritizing mitigation while investigating root‑cause fixes.
- Deliver reports to senior leadership.
- Aid in the development and testing of operational tools and AI‑powered workflows that improve efficiency through automation.
- Customer notification and workflow co‑ordination with follow‑up to maintain service level agreements.
- Creating and maintaining team‑specific knowledge‑base articles and operational and training documentation.
- Assist in the training of new support staff as the team grows.
- Work evenings, weekends, and holidays depending on live event schedules.
A day in the life
- Interact with Prime Video's partners to root cause customer‑impacting incidents.
- Manage ticket queues to ensure issues are addressed quickly, well documented, and tracked for long‑term, iterative improvement.
- Work with developers on development roadmaps and help set priorities for backlog requests.
- Identify and drive down recurring incidents through OE best practices.
- Represent the team when collaborating with adjacent teams across infrastructure/signal engineering, solution architects and developers.
- Script and use AI to develop automation to improve the team's efficient use of tools and reduce manual tasks.
About the team
Live Playback Operations works on a “follow the sun” model, with team members located in Seattle, London, and Hyderabad, providing 24/7/365 coverage. We cover a wide range of live events – NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UCL, EPL, Copa do Brasil, Serie A, Wimbledon, concerts, and much more – available worldwide on Prime Video. We are growing, and hope you may be part of our exciting future.
Basic Qualifications
- 1+ years of software development, or 1+ years of technical support experience.
- Experience scripting in modern programming languages.
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.
- Experience with technical support in a live streaming environment; knowledge of video encoding and delivery, acquisition, codecs, adaptive bit‑rate video playback, common streaming protocols, and software support.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Agile/ Scrum or related collaborative workflow, or experience with software development lifecycle.
- Experience dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure.
- Knowledge of distributed applications/enterprise applications.
- Experience with live broadcast production, transmission, working in a NOC or MCR (Master Control).
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $67,200 per year in our lowest market to $150,300 per year in our highest market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Depending on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Posted: November 14, 2025 (Updated 1 day ago)
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