Sr. Software Development Engineer, Partner Experience, Prime Video

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! We are the Partner Experience organization in Prime Video, responsible for building systems and experiences that enable best in class content management, monetization and analytics for tens of thousands of Prime Video’s 3p partners (Hollywood Studios, Media Houses, Post production houses, content creators). Why it matters: Prime Video is at an inflection point in its journey today as we make a shift from being a prime subscriber benefit to world’s premiere entertainment destination. Our partnership with 3p content creators (aka 3p partners) is paramount in achieving this. In this role, you will be a pioneer in applying ML techniques to world of Entertainment. Your ability to innovate by making use of game changing Generative AI capabilities will materially impact the experience and efficiency of our 3p partners and customers around the world who rely on Prime Video for their streaming needs. Why you’ll love it: You’ll be in unique position to have a view into the entertainment industry, and how we can shape it's supply chain with science investments. This is a high impact, high visibility role where you will work directly with Senior Technology and Science leaders to build and lead programs for customer impacting products. You are responsible to invent using the right frameworks and technologies while keeping the architecture simple to maintain and sustain longer term with high resilience. You’ll be part of a fast paced, and fun team.

Key job responsibilities -Architect a configurable content platform that unifies content ingestion pathways (APIs, form-based, and file-based delivery) across multiple engineering teams, replacing brittle hard-coded pipelines with a toggle-driven framework -Design unified content hosting systems spanning pre-ingestion through catalog publication, ensuring seamless handoffs across partner types and delivery mechanisms -Build a common error validation framework that consolidates quality checks for metadata, artwork, media, assets, and avails into a single source — eliminating duplicated logic across teams -Drive cross-team technical coherence across Prime video teams, ensuring 100s of engineers are building on a consistent architectural foundation -Design for extensibility — ensure platform foundations support 2027 capabilities including AI-powered creative workflows, autonomous defect resolution, same-day onboarding automation, and post-house integration points (AI dubbing, automated subtitles, predictive ROI) -Lead system design and architecture reviews, establishing patterns and standards that scale across the organization -Mentor and influence engineers across multiple teams, raising the technical bar through design guidance, code reviews, and architectural documentation -Partner with product and program managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions with clear milestones and delivery commitments -Identify and resolve cross-team technical dependencies proactively, preventing integration debt before it compounds