Senior Software Engineer, AI-Powered Discovery

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive AI-powered content discovery and personalization at scale. You will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of PV groupings and optimizations while collaborating across teams and external partners.

You will mentor engineers, shape design and testing practices, and push for 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

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 experience
• Confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
• Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• Champion best practices around software engineering, including designing, testing, monitoring

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture leadership

Mentorship

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team in Seattle seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to drive AI-powered content discovery and personalization at scale. You will lead technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of PV groupings and optimizations while collaborating across teams and external partners.

You will mentor engineers, shape design and testing practices, and push for operational excellence.