We own 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, orchestrate carousels and titles on that page and serve it to 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 (ex: Live Events) to push the content to the PV different storefront home page. 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.
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 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 TV—yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun.
The Content Discovery Automation 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 a high performance, low-latency and highly available service and rule engine that uses a graph-based data to compose every storefront page on every supported PV device worldwide. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on automation and continuous deployment. We are following high development standards and build solution 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 selection 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 carousel’s orchestration contracts and a rule engine that enables all PV content owners frictionless platform onboarding, fast storefront experimentation and content delivery to the end-customers.- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
