Software Development Engineer, Prime Video & Studios Core Tech

Description

Prime Video Content Discovery Experiences org is hiring a software engineer to join a team that powers storefronts for millions of Prime Video customers on all supported devices worldwide!

You will design and develop features that will make an impact on all Prime Video customers.

You will use the cutting edge technology and many AWS services

You will work in a team and collaborate with talented and highly motivated engineers.

You will be able to own the full lifecycle of feature development, that will involve gathering product requirements, tech approach, implementation and release to customers.

Key job responsibilities

Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and 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, and positively impact millions of customers. We’re building the future of TV—yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun.

The Content Discovery Experiences team's mission is to empower Amazonians in delivering Earth's most customer-centric video experience and increasing customer engagement by building products that automate all storefront merchandising and scale Prime Video’s service expansion. It’s a big goal and we’ll need to invent solutions along the way.

Our platform consists of web-based content scheduling tool, a high performance, low-latency service that uses a graph-based data storefront to compose every storefront page and a number of other services that power experiences on the storefront including carousels and banners. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology and many AWS services including DynamoDB, Lambdas and Elastic Search. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on test automation and continuous deployment.

The team is seeking a talented and passionate Software Development Engineer to join our team. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and movies.

A day in the life

You will be building and owning systems that are high performance, low-latency web services that powering the PV and IMDB content discovery experiences on PV’s supported devices worldwide. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including Lambdas, S3, Dynamo DB. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on the highest operational standards, test automation, continuous deployment.

About The Team

Our mission is to build a fully-automated Content Selection and Customer Understanding platforms, that generate storefronts for PV end-customers. Our platforms allow other teams, such as Live Events, IMDB to inject content to PV storefronts, run experiments and find out what works the best for our customers. We aim to develop a platform that does not require manual support. Our vision is to build capabilities to automate creation, experimentation, and validation of PV storefronts that will ultimately make merchandising optional. This is a big goal that requires innovative thinking. The team insists on the highest development and operational excellence standards. We review our dashboards weekly and take pro-active steps to improve service resiliency and availability.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on 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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2392845