Software Development Engineer 2, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery
AmazonSoftware Development Engineer 2, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery
AmazonLocation
New York, NY
Type
Full-time
Posted
9/12/2026
Compensation
$158,100 - $213,800 per year
Job description
The role involves building and scaling services that personalize video content recommendations for Prime Video customers. You will work with a talented team of engineers and scientists to create models that deliver an AI-First personalization experience. The team focuses on showing customers the right video content at the right time, catering to a diverse global audience. Your contributions will help improve the platform's retrieval and ranking systems while ensuring high-quality software delivery in an agile environment.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of 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
- Build and scale the services that select and rank what customers see across Prime Video's home and browse experiences.
- Design retrieval and ranking systems that search the full Prime Video catalogue and personalize results per customer.
- Take work from an ambiguous problem statement through design, launch, A/B experiment, and measured customer impact.
- Partner directly with applied scientists to move models from offline evaluation into production serving.
- Improve the platform teams build on: shared retrieval paths, configuration, and experimentation tooling.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
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.
H-1B filing history
Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026
Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc
As of Aug 23, 2026
Initial approvals
3,290
FY2026
Approval rate
99.1%
FY2026
LCA certified
32,937
FY2026
Entry-level share
10.6%
FY2026
Initial approvals YoY
+9%
Trend
LCA certified YoY
-44%
Trend
Initial approvals by fiscal year
Approval rate by fiscal year
Continuing vs initial approvals
LCA certified positions by quarter
LCA certified positions by fiscal year
Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.
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