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?
Amazon’s 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 from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel, renew 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 240 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.
As a Software Development Engineer III at Amazon, you will play a crucial role in solving complex problems related to distributed systems, security, concurrency, scalability, availability, durability, and performance engineering. Working alongside top technical talent and utilizing a pure AWS infrastructure, you will translate user needs, help define the roadmap, design, develop, deploy and test end-to-end solutions. Your presence strengthens the team, as you regularly contribute to the professional growth of your colleagues. With an understanding of how technical choices impact the business, you guide technology decisions to create amazing customer experiences. Collaborating closely with organizational leaders, you ensure your solutions align with broader objectives.
Successful Software Engineer candidates have a solid background in modern programming languages, distributed system design, service-oriented architecture, and high scalable / resilient applications. Experience in big data and machine learning is a plus. Equally important is the ability to multi-task, invent, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative, scalable solutions to difficult problems.
Key job responsibilities To be successful in this position you will have:
- A strong background in algorithms, data structures, Java, and databases both SQL and NoSQL
- The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team across geographies
- You should be able to quickly adapt to new development environments, learn new systems, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems
- Experience working with high-traffic, scalable services
About the team We are the central orchestration platform powering Prime Video's global offer ecosystem, serving millions of customers across 100+ markets. Our team manage the complete offer lifecycle - from TVOD rentals and purchases to channel subscriptions, Prime Video tiers, and account sharing enforcement. We deliver personalized, contextually-relevant offers through resilient Tier-1 services that maintain 99.9%+ uptime while enabling rapid global expansion. Through intelligent offer ranking, dynamic pricing, and seamless subscription journeys, we connect customers with their perfect content at the perfect moment. Our platform processes millions of daily transactions while empowering business teams with self-service tools and supporting 63+ client services across the Prime Video ecosystem. We're building the future of entertainment commerce through AI-driven personalization, automated promotional campaigns, and frictionless customer experiences that drive both acquisition and retention worldwide.
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 leading and influencing your team or organization, or experience contributing to 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
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
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