Sr. Software Development Engineer, Partner Experience, Prime Video

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 Videos technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist youll have end-to-end ownership of the product user experience design and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. Youll get to work on projects that are fast-paced challenging and varied. Youll also be able to experiment with new possibilities take risks and collaborate with remarkable people. Well look for you to bring your diverse perspectives ideas and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! We are the Partner Experience organization in Prime Video responsible for building systems and experiences that enable best in class content management monetization and analytics for tens of thousands of Prime Videos 3p partners (Hollywood Studios Media Houses Post production houses content creators). Why it matters: Prime Video is at an inflection point in its journey today as we make a shift from being a prime subscriber benefit to worlds premiere entertainment destination. Our partnership with 3p content creators (aka 3p partners) is paramount in achieving this role you will be a pioneer in applying ML techniques to world of Entertainment. Your ability to innovate by making use of game changing Generative AI capabilities will materially impact the experience and efficiency of our 3p partners and customers around the world who rely on Prime Video for their streaming needs. Why youll love it: Youll be in unique position to have a view into the entertainment industry and how we can shape its supply chain with science investments. This is a high impact high visibility role where you will work directly with Senior Technology and Science leaders to build and lead programs for customer impacting products. You are responsible to invent using the right frameworks and technologies while keeping the architecture simple to maintain and sustain longer term with high resilience. Youll be part of a fast paced and fun team.

Key job responsibilities
-Architect a configurable content platform that unifies content ingestion pathways (APIs form-based and file-based delivery) across multiple engineering teams replacing brittle hard-coded pipelines with a toggle-driven framework
-Design unified content hosting systems spanning pre-ingestion through catalog publication ensuring seamless handoffs across partner types and delivery mechanisms
-Build a common error validation framework that consolidates quality checks for metadata artwork media assets and avails into a single source eliminating duplicated logic across teams
-Drive cross-team technical coherence across Prime video teams ensuring 100s of engineers are building on a consistent architectural foundation
-Design for extensibility ensure platform foundations support 2027 capabilities including AI-powered creative workflows autonomous defect resolution same-day onboarding automation and post-house integration points (AI dubbing automated subtitles predictive ROI)
-Lead system design and architecture reviews establishing patterns and standards that scale across the organization
-Mentor and influence engineers across multiple teams raising the technical bar through design guidance code reviews and architectural documentation
-Partner with product and program managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions with clear milestones and delivery commitments
-Identify and resolve cross-team technical dependencies proactively preventing integration debt before it compounds

About the team
We are the Partner Experience organization responsible for building systems and experiences that enable best in class content management monetization and analytics capabilities for tens of thousands of Prime Videos 3p partners (Hollywood Studios Media Houses Post Production Houses and Content Creators).

- 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
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers or experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead
- Experience with variety of digital media workflows
- Experience working with REST API based services or experience in any Bigdata architecture and experience in Postgres
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Experience prior success in driving execution of large-scale project plans with multiple teams in support of business goals
- Experience delivering against a large organizations long-term strategy and goals
- Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders

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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 WA SEATTLE - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually