Senior Software Engineer, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

About the role

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.

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
• Train new team-mates about customers, team software, and how it fits into the bigger picture
• Focus on operational excellence, identifying problems and proposing solutions, and improving team software
• Champion best practices around software engineering, including designing, testing, and monitoring

About The Team

We are a team passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to surface 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. You’ll join a diverse group of engineers at different career stages, combining fresh perspectives with deep technical expertise.

Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ 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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $184,900.00 - $250,200.00 USD annually in New York, and $168,100.00 - $227,400.00 USD annually in Seattle. 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.

Benefits

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.