Software Development Engineer, Prime Video
Amazon.com Services LLC•3h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-timeMid Level3+ yrs exp
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- Do you want to take on one of the most important engineering challenges shaping the future of movies, television
- digital video? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video (PV) is a premium streaming service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch
- how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles and PCs worldwide. This is a young and evolving business within Amazon where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative
- positively impact millions of customers. We’re building the future of streaming - yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun! The Prime Video (PV) Search Engineering team is looking for a Software Development Engineer with a strong technical background, experience in building large-scale machine learning models in a production environment, a passion for search technologies, information retrieval problems
- digital entertainment. Key job responsibilities Do you want to take on one of the most important engineering challenges shaping the future of movies, television
- digital video? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video (PV) is a premium streaming service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch
- how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles
- PCs worldwide. This is a young and evolving business within Amazon where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative
- positively impact millions of customers. We’re building the future of streaming
- while it’s challenging, it’s also a lot of fun. The Prime Video Discovery Engineering team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to help build the next generation of AI-powered content discovery. Our team builds the systems that decide what customers see when they open Prime Video, generating personalized, high-quality discovery recommendations and serving them to millions of customers in real time. We turn large language models, embeddings
- semantic retrieval into customer experiences that run at Prime Video scale. In this role, you will design, build
- operate production systems that bring machine learning to life for customers, including:
- Low-latency online serving systems that retrieve and rank personalized recommendations in real time, combining behavioral and semantic embeddings, approximate nearest-neighbor retrieval, cross-encoder rerankers
- diversity-aware ranking.
- Large-scale offline data and ML pipelines that generate, classify, embed, and index content using large language models and embedding models, orchestrated across managed workflow and inference infrastructure.
- Automated quality and evaluation systems that measure relevance, personalization, diversity, and trust and safety using LLM-based judges and offline metrics, so we can ship improvements with confidence.
- The AWS infrastructure behind all of it, defined as code, along with the experimentation framework used to A/B test changes and measure real customer impact. A successful candidate will have a strong software engineering foundation, a passion for applied machine learning, information retrieval
- large-scale distributed systems
- the drive to own components end to end from design through production operations. You will work closely with applied scientists, product managers
- other engineers to translate ambiguous problems into reliable, high-performance systems. Experience with distributed services, data pipelines
- ML model integration in a production environment is highly valued
- a genuine interest in digital entertainment is a big plus.
- 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 - 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems
- services using: C#, C++, Java
- Perl experience - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
- a related field - 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
- operations experience - Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
- other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. 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
- 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
- parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, NY, New York - 158,100.00 - 213,800.00 USD annually
Required skills
C#C++JavaPerlmachine learninginformation retrievaldistributed systemsdata pipelinessoftware developmentObject Oriented Design