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Senior Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Intelligence

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/4/2026

Compensation

$168,100 - $227,400 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer role at Prime Video focuses on building AI-powered analytics tools to enhance internal teams' capabilities in identifying playback issues and making data-driven business decisions. The position is part of the PVXT Intelligence Tools Team, which develops systems that generate actionable insights from vast amounts of data. Candidates will work on large-scale real-time data, machine learning, and distributed systems, contributing to the future of video entertainment. This role offers opportunities for collaboration with data scientists and mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • Experience as a mentor or tech lead in an engineering team
  • 5+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience and knowledge of video streaming analytics is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Tackle complex problems that span a variety of domains including large scale real-time data and machine learning
  • Design and build services and systems that scale to serve billions of requests per day
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to influence technical strategy and define long-term road maps
  • Rapidly ideate, prototype, and iterate on solutions that generate actionable insights
  • Spearhead best practices to ensure quality products and coach junior engineers

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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