Job Information
Amazon Sr. Software Development Engineer, Prime Video MetaGEN in Seattle, Washington
Description
Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.
We are growing rapidly and looking for strong engineers who are up for one of the biggest challenges in the video streaming business, live-streaming millions of concurrent streams and delivering high-quality content to millions of users worldwide.
At Prime Video, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment. You will own and operate business critical high-throughput services that deliver the content to our customers in a reliable and low latent manner.
About the team
Our mission is to generate new and enrich existing metadata to power trust & safety, search, discovery, and playback experiences for customers worldwide.
To accomplish this mission, MetaGEN works closely with engineering and science to generate and interconnect scene level information (e.g., emotion, object, place) in a Semantic Knowledge Graph, and use graph reasoning and big-data techniques to mine: (a) time-coded metadata (e.g., scene changes , music, intros, recap, end credits), (b) title level metadata (e.g., mood, topic, synopsis), and (c) content relationship metadata (e.g., Title Similarity Rankings) at scale and high accuracy. MetaGEN works through partner organizations (e.g., Trust & Safety, PV Search, Playback, Ads) to influence Title Discovery, Engagement, Reach, and accuracy for Ad Cue Points.
Basic Qualifications
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 Qualifications
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
Experience working on large-scale machine-learning applications & prompt engineering
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.