SDE III, PV Sports Lifecycle

About the role

Love sports? Want to change the world? Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports properties including the NFL, NBA, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, Roland-Garros (French Open), the US Open and more.

Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And we're building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Sports team is a single-threaded-owner, uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire Prime Video stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers.

If this sounds like the type of experience you'd like to help build - apply here and let's chat!

Key job responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-tier distributed services and customer experiences across multiple engineers.
• Own team architecture-providing system-wide perspective, design guidance, and influencing future technology choices.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces; understand business impact and make sound technical trade-offs between short-term and long-term needs.
• Identify and resolve root causes of endemic problems, including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams.
• Communicate technical designs and decisions effectively in writing, including for technical non-engineering audiences when required.
• Actively coach and mentor multiple engineers, fostering growth within and beyond your team.
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices-code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.
• Collaborate effectively across a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.) and create the right checkpoints with dependent teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Proactively identify architecture deficiencies and simplify existing systems and solutions.
• Deliver frequently and incrementally, balancing speed of delivery with building the right foundation for the future.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

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.

USA, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually