Amazon · 8 hours ago
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery
New York, New York, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$185K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for its Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team. This role will lead the technical strategy and architecture for the search infrastructure modernization and AI-powered content discovery initiatives, collaborating across teams to ensure successful implementation and operational excellence.
RetailArtificial Intelligence (AI)E-CommerceLogisticsDeliveryFoundational AI
Responsibilities
Lead technical strategy and architecture for Search Decoupling initiative, working across Search Engine, Search Relevance, Query Understanding, and SCCX teams to deliver comprehensive solutions
Drive integration between traditional search and LLM-based approaches for content discovery, designing hybrid architectures that leverage both semantic understanding and traditional ranking signals
Collaborate with ML/AI teams to implement and optimize LLM-powered features including semantic search, natural language query understanding, and personalized content recommendations
Design, implement, and maintain robust search infrastructure components including Search Index Builder and Search Results Ranker services, contributing significant code volume and conducting thorough code reviews
Drive ML Ranking integration planning and develop custom ML frameworks that enable multi-model experimentation within decoupled search architecture, with emphasis on LLM integration patterns
Establish and lead operational excellence initiatives including cross-org OPR meetings, performance profiling office hours, and on-call rotations to improve system reliability
Mentor engineers across multiple teams on work execution, career development, and software/system design through regular 1:1s and technical guidance
Resolve critical system issues and escalations, including root cause analysis and providing teams with actionable solutions to unblock launches
Align cross-org teams on system architecture decisions including compute, feature storage/caching/persistence, batch processing components, and LLM inference infrastructure
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred
5+ 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
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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