Sr. SDE, Machine Learning, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Just finished “Rings of Power” or “Thursday Night Football” and want to find
something new to stream? So do tens of millions of our Prime Video customers.
The Prime Video Recommendation team's mission is to leverage Machine Learning
(ML) systems that establish deep connections between customers and their
favorite Movies, TV shows, and Live Events in order to power highly personalized
recommendations, identify the most delightful content for each customer to
engage with at the right time, in the right place, across Prime Video. We help
our customers find content they didn’t even know they were looking for,
continuing to surprise them with the breadth and depth of content available to
enjoy.

As Sr. SDE, you will be technical lead of an engineering team building services
to deliver personalization solutions at incredible scale and speed. You will be
operating with state of the art technologies on engineering and machine learning
dimensions. Your responsibilities will include system design, prototyping new ML
solutions, and planning A/B experimentation to demonstrate customer value of
your solutions. You will foster a culture of innovation and excellence, leading
and growing talented junior engineers on your team and around PV. At the end of
the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions delight PV
customers worldwide (including yourself!)

This team is at the heart of PV personalization - building ML-driven
understanding about customers' preferences based on their past engagement,
current context (e.g. device, title release date etc.) and other signals (e.g.
search activity etc.). We use this understanding to power new video discovery
experience across PV. We operate in a complex business/tech space requiring us
to operate at speed and rapidly prototype/experiment. If you are excited about
making an impact on a product that is used by 100M+ customers around the world,
including your own friends and family, then this could be the right opportunity
for you!

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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 with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations

Responsibilities

• Building and operating services that deliver millions of recommendations per second
• Driving innovation through continuous experimentation and use of state of the art ML solutions
• Extending solutions to support constantly evolving landscape of Prime Video - Live Sports, Linear TV, etc.
• Leading & Partnering on developing strategic technical vision for the PV Recommendations space.
• Partnering with Product, Scientists and Engineering stakeholders

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level