Senior Software Engineer - AI Personalization & Discovery

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead personalization and discovery customer experiences, driving AI-powered content recommendations and scalable systems.

You will design and implement PV groupings, re-engagement, and optimization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with scientists, product management, and other teams to deliver fast, reliable services, while championing architectural integrity and operational excellence

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.
• 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.

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.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge about customers, software construction, testing, operations, and the bigger picture.
• Focus on operational excellence, identify problems and propose solutions, take on projects to improve software maintainability.
• Champion best practices around software engineering, including designing, testing, monitoring.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Distributed systems

Mentorship/leadership

Experience with design/architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead personalization and discovery customer experiences, driving AI-powered content recommendations and scalable systems.

You will design and implement PV groupings, re-engagement, and optimization, mentor engineers, and collaborate with scientists, product management, and other teams to deliver fast, reliable services, while championing architectural integrity and operational excellence