Software Development Engineer - Prime Video Linear Personalization Experience Team LPEX

Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an everincreasing selection of movies TV shows Emmy Award winning original content addon subscriptions including HBO and Showtime and live events like Thursday Night Football. Making great content available to customers with high availability is just one part of the puzzle. Experimenting with different ways of making this content available to customers is equally important.
Linear 24/7 Television or broadcast programming) is one of the key options for Prime Video customers. Although video on demand is on the rise the global viewing hours weighs in favor of live or scheduled TV and OTT linear streamin. We in Linear Personalization are building next gen personalization and recommendation systems to provide bestinclass Linear TV experience to Prime Video customers. It is Day 1 for personalizing linear TV experience on Prime Video.

This is your opportunity to take an active role in shaping the future of digital video by defining next generation of what Amazon customers will be watching. We need your passion innovative ideas and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.

We are looking for strong developers who are passionate about delivering excellent digital media experiences to our customers. It is an opportunity to work with Principal and senior engineers to build highspeed data delivery systems and creating simple solutions for the complex media ingestion and publishing processes.

Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in C/Java Python and/or SQL while experience with ElasticSearch AWS services including Dynamo SQS Athena will help you contribute quickly. Exposure to Machine Learning models and AI will be useful in this role.

Equally important to these specific skills are a candidates ability to multitask quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements learn new systems create reliable/maintainable code find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems and ability to communicate clearly and concisely both written and orally.


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on Linear Personalization Experience (LPEX) team you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition design and development of innovative software products which will help boost engineers productivity in Amazon for improving services posture towards security availability efficiency compliance and maintainability.

Key responsibilities:

Define system architecture own and implement specific components and help shape the overall billing experience by bringing perspective and context of current technology choices and guide future technology choices.
Lead projects that require work of multiple engineers.
Define and drive software best practices including coding standards code reviews source control management agile development build processes and testing.
Collaborate closely with product managers technical project managers architects and PE from within and crossfunctional teams across PV.
You will take responsibility for technical problem solving and creatively meeting product objectives in ambiguous scenarios where customer problems are defined but technology strategy is not yet defined.
Coach and mentor engineers on the team to foster a supportive culture of collaboration scalability and performance.


A day in the life
You thrive in a fastpaced startup like environment and want to invent the future. Your expertise is deep and broad; you start with the customer and work backwards to develop a coherent vision for services that support the flexibility and scale that customers expect from us. You have built and operated systems that support highend business complexity and scale with simple and elegant solutions. And you are the technical expert that can take on architectural challenges to innovative solutions while demonstrating leadership technical competence and craftsmanship.


About the team
LPEXs vision is to surface the breadth and depth of PVs Linear selection at the right moment of time to its customers by curating the most relevant linear programming tailored to their individual tastes purchase behaviors schedules and viewing habits while simultaneously elevating awareness of our extensive Linear catalog.

Our mission is to anticipate and exceed viewers expectations fostering deeper connections with the content they love while elevating awareness of our extensive live TV catalog and adapting to viewers preferences and propensities for both live and ondemand viewing enriching the overall entertainment journey.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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
Bachelors 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 $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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.