Senior SDE, Prime Video Personalization & Discovery

Prime Video is a 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 experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, 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 get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Senior Software Development Engineer to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will be a technical leader helping to design and build the ML infrastructure that power our vision. You will tackle complex and ambiguous problems, designing and delivering scalable and resilient ML and Data platform solutions from the ground up. You will not only write high-quality, maintainable code, but also mentor other engineers, influence our technical strategy, and drive engineering best practices across the team. Your work will directly contribute to making Prime Video's operations more efficient and will set the technical foundation for years to come.

Key job responsibilities

Own end-to-end product, user experience, design, and technology for state-of-the-art digital video experiences.

Design and build ML infrastructure powering Prime Video’s vision.

Address complex and ambiguous problems, delivering scalable and resilient ML and data platform solutions from the ground up.

Write high-quality, maintainable code and mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and drive engineering best practices across the team.

Collaborate with scientists, product managers and engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete system deliverables.

Build new platform services from the ground up, driving innovative approaches to personalization and supporting scalable ML solutions for new customer experiences.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.

5+ years of programming with at least one programming language.

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution.

Experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing large data sets, or experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations.

Benefits
The base salary range for this position is listed by location below and includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and optional Supplemental life plans), employee assistance program (EAP), mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Sunnyvale - $193,300.00 - $261,500.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - $184,900.00 - $250,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, SEATTLE - $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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