Software Development Engineer II - Content Awareness and Promotion - Prime Video

Job summary
Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and how to watch it. AV 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 Awareness and Promotion team is part of the Prime Video Personalization organization. Our vision 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.

Within this space, our team aims to increase experimentation for content discovery by automating all repetitive manual work to build and maintain content discovery experiences. Our vision is to fully automate creation, experimentation, and validation of the Amazon Video storefront that will ultimately make merchandising optional. It’s a big goal and we’ll need to invent solutions along the way.

Our systems consists of high performance, low-latency web services that power the top marketing placements across all of PV’s devices. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including API gateway, Lambdas, S3, Dynamo DB, Elastic MapReduce and Kinesis. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on test automation and continuous deployment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (CS) or related field
• Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education
• 2+ years professional experience in software development
• CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structure, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Proficiency in, at least, modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, Kotlin, or Go Lang
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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