Software Dev Engineer II, Control Plane & Orchestration, Prime Video

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Video is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help drive product innovation in onboarding customer experience and raise the bar on operational excellence for our Tier-1 filtering service. You will work on high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that shape what hundreds of millions of customers see when they open Prime Video.

You will own end-to-end systems, build customer-facing features, and explore AI-powered development tools to accelerate how we build, test, and operate

Job description

Description

Prime Video is transforming how customers discover and experience entertainment. We are a premium streaming service offering an endless selection of movies, TV shows, sports, and more — all tailored to each customer's unique interests. Our vast library includes thousands of popular movies and TV series, critically acclaimed Amazon Originals, exciting live sports, and exclusive content you will not find anywhere else. With Prime Video, customers can easily find their next favorite show, rent or buy new releases, or subscribe to premium add-on channels — all within a seamless, personalized experience. Prime Video is available globally in over 240 countries and territories, bringing the best of entertainment to customers worldwide. We are passionate storytellers committed to fostering connections between creators and audiences through unforgettable viewing experiences.

Prime Video is transforming how customers discover and experience entertainment. We are a premium streaming service offering an endless selection of movies, TV shows, sports, and more — all tailored to each customer's unique interests. Our vast library includes thousands of popular movies and TV series, critically acclaimed Amazon Originals, exciting live sports, and exclusive content you will not find anywhere else. With Prime Video, customers can easily find their next favorite show, rent or buy new releases, or subscribe to premium add-on channels — all within a seamless, personalized experience. Prime Video is available globally in over 240 countries and territories, bringing the best of entertainment to customers worldwide. We are passionate storytellers committed to fostering connections between creators and audiences through unforgettable viewing experiences.
We own the content management and aggregation platform that powers Prime Video (PV) content discovery experiences on all PV supported devices worldwide. We are responsible for constructing a page, orchestrating carousels and titles on that page and serving it to hundreds of millions of PV customers. Our platform is at the core of the PV content discovery experience and is critical to the PV mission of “Show Every Customer the Right Content, in the Right Place, at the Right Time”.
We are the gateway for any PV content owner (e.g: Live Events) to push content to the different PV storefront pages. To be successful at our scale, we invest in long term platform capabilities and deal with exciting technical challenges on a daily basis. The complexity of the technical problems that we are solving creates great opportunities for engineers to meet their career goals and grow professionally.
We are seeking a Software Development Engineer to help us drive product innovation in our onboarding customer experience and raise the bar on operational excellence for our Tier-1 filtering service. You will work on high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that directly shape what hundreds of millions of customers see when they open Prime Video, while also building customer-facing features that make first impressions count for new viewers. You will have the opportunity to experiment with and champion AI-powered development tools and workflows to accelerate how we build, test, and operate software. If you are excited about owning systems end-to-end at massive scale, thinking like a product owner, and pushing the boundaries of what AI tooling can do for engineering teams, this role is for you.
Key job responsibilities
Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment 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 an 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 TV—yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun.
Our team's mission is to empower Amazonians in delivering Earth's most customer-centric video experience and increasing customer engagement by building products that automate all storefront merchandising and scale Prime Video’s service expansion. It’s a big goal and we’ll need to invent solutions along the way.
We own high performance, low-latency and highly available services and a rule engine built on a graph-based data model that composes every storefront page on every supported PV device worldwide. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on automation and continuous deployment. We follow high development standards and build solutions that scale long-term. On a daily basis we are solving challenging technical problems that create great opportunities for engineers to grow professionally and become tech experts. Our engineers are very excited to make code changes and test them at home on their PV-supported devices.
The team is seeking a talented and passionate Software Development Engineer to join our team. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and movies.
A day in the life
You will be building our best-in-class content aggregation platform while solving challenging technical problems. You will contribute to the PV storefront architecture.