Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ads

Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Ads

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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. The 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, including 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. As an engineer, you will help bring customers’ streaming video experience to a new level by building low‑latency, high‑throughput dynamic ad insertion systems that sit 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 Cloud Front, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, SQS and internal AWS incubator technologies.

• Design, develop, and operate critical, 24/7 low‑latency, high‑throughput systems for dynamic ad insertion into live and VOD streams.
• Build and maintain web services and distributed systems that ingest, stitch, and deliver ads to Prime Video customers worldwide.
• Collaborate with ad decision and ad production systems engineering teams to support dynamic transcoding and ad insertions.
• Write production‑grade code in one or more software programming languages, conduct code reviews, and follow AWS best practices.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance at the level required for tens of millions of concurrent viewers.

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability and scaling.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

• 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with critical, 24×7 systems and high‑throughput, multi‑threaded systems.
• Experience developing web services or other large‑scale distributed systems delivered to customers.
• Experience building video advertising products or managing tier‑1 services is a nice to have but not required.
• Prior experience with dynamic ad insertion, ad stitching, or ad ingestion technologies.

Arlington, VA

Base salary range: $ – $ USD annually.

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Your Amazon package may also include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.