Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Intelligence

Would you like to shape the future of the video entertainment industry for movies, TV and live sports events? Does solving complex problems within large scale systems excite you? If you answered yes, come build the future of entertainment with us!

Prime Video is disrupting the traditional television and movie industry with a growing library of high-quality media. Prime Video launched in 2007 and has quickly become a strategic priority for the company, reflected in the services recent expansion into over 240 countries and territories worldwide. Amazon invests in acquiring, producing and programming TV shows, movies and live events including must-see exclusive series like Lord of the Rings, The Boys, The Wheel of Time, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and so on. In addition to our On Demand catalog, Prime Video is excited to offer a wide selection of Linear Channels and Live Sports as well, including titles such as Thursday Night Football, English Premier League, NBA, MLB, ATP tennis, French Open, UEFA Champions League (list goes on..) world-wide at large scale.
The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

Key job responsibilities
Successful candidates will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, building highly scalable systems and system design with a focus on making sense of data, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and streaming.

A day in the life
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II for the PVXT Analytics Tools and Insights Team. As a SDE II on our team you will need to tackle complex problems that span a variety of domains: large scale real time data, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Natural Language processing, distributed systems and help us build services and systems from ground up which scale and serve billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. You will get to work on a lot of established as well as green field AWS technologies and design large scale backend systems from scratch. This is a highly visible role, and you are someone who loves the challenge of making sense of complex, nuanced, multi-dimensional data and building systems and tools that enables others to do the same in a timely manner. A successful candidate in this role, will rapidly ideate, prototype, and iterate. You will hold a high bar for delivery of solutions that generate timely and actionable insights. In this role you will have an opportunity to collaborate with a cross functional team to influence our overall technical strategy and help define the teams long-term technical road map. You will spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and share learnings with the broader team.

About the team
Our team moves fast to deliver mission critical tooling for all of Prime Video. We obsess over finding ways to deliver value fast. Our tooling is a force multiplier for many teams, allowing them to derive insights from Prime Video's complex data models. We realize AI-based tooling is instrumental to our success and are making heavy investments to incorporate AI technologies into our tooling.

We care about your career growth and once you join the team, you and your manager will jointly craft a career plan and youll review it regularly to ensure youre on track to reach your goals. Whether you want to explore new technologies, take on bigger challenges, well help you get there. Our business is growing fast, and our people will grow with it.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic 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. Dependent 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/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.