Software Development Engineer, Prime Video

Overview Prime Video (PV) is a premium streaming 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 streaming – yes, it’s challenging, but 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, and semantic retrieval into customer experiences that run at Prime Video scale. Responsibilities 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, and 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. Qualifications Basic Qualifications 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+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience 1+ year of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java or Perl 1+ year of Object Oriented Design experience Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field Experience programming with at least one software programming language 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 Benefits The base salary range for this position is $158,100.00 - $213,800.00 USD annually. This role includes 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. Equal Opportunity Employer Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. #J-18808-Ljbffr Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios