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Senior Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Personalization & Discovery

Amazon· Software Development
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$168.1k - $227.4kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior SDE responsible for designing and operating the online data platform that powers real-time personalization and discovery for Prime Video. Leads architecture of low-latency feature serving, streaming ingestions, unified datasets, and data contracts, while ensuring production reliability and collaboration with scientists and modeling teams to enable AI-first personalization at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead the build-out of online feature-serving systems delivering customer-behavior signals within strict latency budgets.
  • Design and scale near-real-time streaming pipelines from user actions to model-ready features in seconds, meeting end-to-end freshness SLAs.
  • Define and build unified, extensible datasets and enabler data products to lift downstream models, experiments, and evaluations.
  • Set technical direction for data contracts and online/offline consistency to keep training and serving in sync.
  • Own production reliability and operational excellence for these systems, including monitoring, alerts, freshness and availability SLAs, and graceful degradation when upstream signals lag.
  • Tackle ambiguous, cross-team problems from design to impact, raising the technical bar through reviews and mentorship of SDEs.
  • Partner with applied scientists and modeling teams to translate signals into reliable, production-grade data.
  • Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software and shape engineering practices.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming in at least one programming language
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new/existing systems (reliability and scaling)
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred)

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureMentorship and technical leadership

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • RSUs and sign-on payments as part of compensation package
  • Comprehensive benefits including mental health support and other programs as described in the job posting
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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