Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ads

Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television for Prime Video customers? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we're just getting started.

PV Ads team owns services that integrate with ad decision systems. We launched Prime Video's Ads offering and are continuing to launch new products and features for our customers. In the past we have helped launch Thursday Night Football and CBS All Access (with ads) on Prime Video. The team is chartered to design large-scale systems that power live streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily — including our biggest live events, which scale up to 31 million concurrent viewers (CCU). You will help bring customers' streaming video experience to a new level.

As an engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging problems in the low-latency/high-throughput domain of dynamic ad insertion. The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide, operating at a scale where a single live event can reach tens of millions of concurrent viewers with zero tolerance for disruption. We leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies including AWS CloudFront, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS and internal AWS incubator technologies.

You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Key job responsibilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience with critical, 24x7 systems
Experience with high throughput, multi-threaded systems
Experience developing web services, or other large scale distributed systems, that have been successfully delivered to customers
Experience building AI-powered systems, agentic workflows, or ML-driven applications would be a nice to have, but is not required
Experience building video advertising products would be a nice to have, but is not required
Prior experience managing tier-1 services would be a nice to have, but is not required
Familiarity with AI pair-programming tools and spec-driven development would be a nice to have, but is not required
Prime Video Ads team's mission is to build a seamless ad delivery, playback and reporting experience across all supported PV devices. We do this by building highly scaled, low latency services that fetch, ingest, stitch and deliver ads using industry leading video ad serving technologies, increasingly powered by AI-driven automation and intelligent operational tooling.

PV Ads team owns services for ad ingestion, ad stitching and integrates with ad decision systems. Its services handle dynamic transcoding and ad insertions as part of video playback.

The team is chartered to design large scale systems to power the live and vod streams with ads viewed by a massive audience daily, and you will help bring customers streaming video view experience to a new level. As an AI-first team, we build agentic systems and use AI pair-programming daily to accelerate delivery while maintaining broadcast-grade reliability.

The systems you design and build will be in the core path of video delivery to Prime Video customers worldwide. You will need to have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, experience or a strong interest in applying AI, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation to real-world systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, a high level of creativity and great analytical reasoning skills.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually