Senior Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Commerce - Offers Tech

You will be responsible for the long term, strategic technical vision for your team. You will lead large initiatives, through design and development, across our high scale, low latency services that power the customer acquisition journey. You will be a mentor to your team, setting the right operational excellence bar. You will work closely with product, UX, and other partner teams to deliver net new experience to the Prime Video experience. You will partner with our Applied Science and Data teams to ship read-time models that influence this experience at a high-scale.

A day in the life
You will design and build high throughput and low latency services with Amazon's latest cloud technologies. Your projects will impact our millions of global customers and let them watch the videos they love. You will independently lead new features and understand how to make these features BIG, so they scale - think 1.5MM+ request per second and less than 50ms response time. NFL, Premier League, the Boys are some of the exclusive Prime Video titles you will help our customers view. You will be working with our global teams, and your features will launch on all devices, worldwide.

About the team
We are a diverse team with engineers from all over the world. You will be part of a supportive and collaborative group that help and learn from each other. We celebrate our successes and learn from our challenges. We offer you the chance to make a direct impact on the way Amazon customers watch video worldwide. Our teams provide opportunities to hone your ideas, challenge your thinking, develop your skills and advance your career. You will learn from our experienced engineers and have opportunity to hire, coach and mentor others.

Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

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