Senior Software Engineer, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead Personalization and Discovery customer experiences. This role will work across team boundaries within PVPD and with external partners to drive the success of AI-powered content discovery initiatives. Youll be responsible for leading the technical strategy architecture and implementation of PV groupings re-engagement and optimizations. Youll also establish operational excellence practices across the organization.

Key job responsibilities
* Design develop and maintain AI based recommendation systems services that drive personalized experiences across Prime Video

* Build distributed systems to manage high-volume low-latency AI powered customers experiences

* Develop tooling and automation to improve the efficiency visibility and reliability of recommendation systems.

* Collaborate cross-functionally with applied scientists product management and other software development teams to continuously enhance the Prime Video discovery and personalization experiences experience

* Confidently train new team-mates about your customers what your teams software does how it is constructed tested operates and how it fits into the bigger picture.

* Focus on operational excellence constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions taking on projects that improve your teams software making it better and easier to maintain.

* Champion best practices around software engineering including designing testing monitoring

A day in the life
Your day begins with team standup meetings where you help prioritize work streams and unblock critical issues. Some days will involve hands-on development writing and reviewing code and other will consist of technical leadership responsibilities authoring design documents or weighing in on your teammates approaches.

Throughout the day youll mentor junior engineers providing technical guidance and collaborating with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Youll drive discussions with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on architectural decisions.

Youll be responsible for maintaining and improving our personalization infrastructures reliability and performance troubleshooting complex production issues and implementing monitoring and alerting systems.

About the team
We are a team that is passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to help surfacing the right content to the right customer at the right time. We love experimentation and learning how we can improve the quality of our recommendations.

Youll join a diverse group of engineers at different career stages combining fresh perspectives with deep technical expertise. Our mission is to create intuitive fast and personalized experiences that delight our global customer base. We blend technical excellence with strong product thinking and our culture emphasizes learning and growth with senior members actively mentoring newer engineers.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include 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 option for Supplemental life plans 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 NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually