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

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Prime Video is hiring a Software Development Engineer to help build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems powering PV storefronts across devices. You will work on the content aggregation platform, carousels and titles, and contribute to a robust, AI-enabled development workflow that accelerates building, testing, and deploying features for millions of customers.

You will collaborate with multiple PV teams, own end-to-end components, and champion automation and operational excellence

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.
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. You will build platform capabilities and long term solutions that will need to perform at scale. We are at the epicenter of the storefront generation and hence you will have an opportunity to collaborate with many other PV teams and influence the PV technical ecosystem.
About the team
Our mission is building a highly-available, scalable and low-maintenance Content Aggregation Platform for carousels and titles that delivers the best content and high quality experience to PV customers. It’s the only platform that delivers all carousels and titles to the storefront. The platform provides customers with the best-in-class content discovery experience. We own strongly-typed orchestration contracts and a rule engine that enables all PV content owners to onboard frictionlessly, fast storefront experimentation and content delivery to the end-customers.