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Software Development Engineer, Prime Video

Amazon

Location

New York, NY

Type

Full-time

Posted

7/7/2026

Compensation

$158,100 - $213,800 per year

Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
Approval 98.6%·Filings 19,451·New hires 10,113·
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·FY 2025

Job description

The Prime Video Search Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help shape the future of digital video and content discovery. This role involves designing and building systems that deliver personalized recommendations to millions of customers in real time. The position requires a strong technical background in machine learning and software engineering, with a focus on creating low-latency online serving systems and large-scale data pipelines. The successful candidate will work closely with applied scientists and product managers to translate complex problems into effective solutions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate production systems that utilize machine learning for customer recommendations
  • Develop low-latency online serving systems that retrieve and rank personalized recommendations in real time
  • Create large-scale offline data and ML pipelines for content generation and classification
  • Implement automated quality and evaluation systems to measure relevance and personalization
  • Define AWS infrastructure as code and manage experimentation frameworks for A/B testing

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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