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. Within this expanding ecosystem Linear TV 24/7 Television or broadcast programming) has emerged as one of our fastestgrowing segments with viewership hours increasing significantly year over year. This growth demonstrates that even in the streaming era customers deeply value the leanback curated experience that Linear TV provides.

Our data shows that Linear TV viewers develop strong habitual viewing patterns spending more time on the platform and engaging more consistently than traditional VODonly users. While video on demand continues to grow the predictable nature of scheduled programming creates daily viewing rituals and higher customer retention. We in Linear Personalization are building nextgeneration AIpowered personalization and recommendation systems to enhance this natural engagement and provide a bestinclass Linear TV experience for Prime Video customers. By understanding and adapting to these viewing habits we can create more compelling and sticky experiences for our customers. Its Day 1 for personalizing linear TV experience on Prime Video and youll be at the forefront of this innovation.

This is your opportunity to take an active role in shaping the future of digital video by defining the 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 of creating personalized viewing experiences for millions of customers worldwide.

We are looking for strong developers who are passionate about building sophisticated recommendation systems and delivering excellent personalized digital media experiences to our customers. This is an opportunity to work with Principal Engineers and Applied Scientists to build highperformance recommendation systems realtime data processing pipelines and create elegant solutions for complex personalization challenges.

Successful candidates for this position will have a strong background in Java/Python experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch) and proficiency in SQL and distributed systems. Experience with AWS services including DynamoDB SQS SageMaker and Lambda will help you contribute quickly. Knowledge of recommendation systems personalization algorithms and experience with model serving infrastructure is crucial for 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 verbally.


Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on Linear Personalization Experience (LPEX) team you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing recommendation systems that directly impact how millions of customers discover and engage with content on Prime Video. You will:


* Design and implement highperformance personalization systems that scale to millions of users and realtime content decisions
* Collaborate with Applied Scientists to productionize ML models for content recommendation and viewer engagement optimization
* Architect and build data pipelines that process viewer behavior content metadata and realtime signals
* Develop and optimize realtime serving infrastructure for recommendation models with strict latency requirements
* Lead the technical design and implementation of A/B testing frameworks to measure and improve recommendation quality
* Define system architecture and implement specific components while considering current and future technology choices
* Define and drive software best practices including coding standards code reviews and testing
* Coach and mentor engineers on the team to foster a supportive culture of collaboration scalability and performance.
* Lead projects that require collaboration with multiple engineers product managers applied scientists and crossfunctional teams.

A day in the life
You thrive in a fastpaced startup like environment and want to invent the future of personalized entertainment. You 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. 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. You are the technical expert that can take on architectural challenges to innovative solutions while demonstrating leadership and technical competence and craftsmanship in both software engineering and machine learning applications.

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.