Software Development Engineer - Storefront Automation - Amazon Prime Video

About the hiring group
Our mission is to build a fully-automated Content Selection Platform, that generates storefronts for PV end-customers. Our platform allows other PV teams, such as IMDB, Live Events, to inject content to PV storefronts. We aim to develop a platform that does not require manual support. The team insists on the highest development and operational excellence standards. We review our dashboards weekly and take pro-active steps to improve service resiliency and availability.
Job responsibilities
Prime Video (PV) is a premium entertainment service that offers customers the greatest choices in what to watch, and how to watch it. PV delivers movies and TV shows instantly to TVs, tablets, game consoles and PCs worldwide. This is a young and evolving business within Amazon where creativity and drive can have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be creative, and positively impact millions of customers. We’re building the future of TV—yes, it’s challenging, but it’s also a lot of fun.

The Storefront Automation team's mission is to empower Amazonians in delivering Earth's most customer-centric video experience and increasing customer engagement by building products that automate all storefront merchandising and scale Prime Video’s service expansion. It’s a big goal and we’ll need to invent solutions along the way.

Our platform consists of web-based content scheduling tool, a high performance, low-latency service that uses a graph-based data storefront to compose every storefront page and a number of other services that power experiences on the storefront including carousels and banners. Our platforms are built using cutting edge technology including ReactJS and many AWS services including Lambdas and Elastic Search. Our teams embrace agile methodologies with a focus on test automation and continuous deployment.

The team is seeking a talented and passionate Software Development Engineer to join our team. A successful candidate will have a strong technical ability, great communication skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment, high creativity, great analytical reasoning skills, and, of course, a passion for TV and movies.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

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