Sr. SDE, Machine Learning, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Key job responsibilities

• Building services with Tier-1 availability and performance characteristics while enabling Day-1 innovation capabilities.
• Evolving the Prime Video Storefront orchestration strategy to enable continuous experimentation and feature delivery that keeps pace with innovations in state-of-the-art ML capabilities.
• Extending solutions to support constantly evolving landscape of Prime Video - Live Sports, Linear TV, etc.
• Leading & Partnering on developing strategic technical vision for the PV Recommendations space.
• Partnering with Product, Scientists and Engineering stakeholders

About the team

This team is at the heart of PV personalization - building ML-driven understanding about customers' preferences based on their past engagement, current context (e.g. device, title release date etc.) and other signals (e.g. search activity etc.). We use this understanding to power new video discovery experience across PV. We operate in a complex business/tech space requiring us to operate at speed and rapidly prototype/experiment. If you are excited about making an impact on a product that is used by 100M+ customers around the world, including your own friends and family, then this could be the right opportunity for you!

Basic 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