SDE III, PV Sports Lifecycle

Tens of millions of fans. Dozens of sports leagues like the NFL and NBA. Thousands of live events a year, and every one has to start, run, and finish on Prime Video at exactly the right time.

That's where we come in. We build the systems that manage the lifecycle of every live sports event on Prime Video. We also power the sports commerce experiences that help fans find and buy subscription channels for their favorite teams, on a platform that has to scale with every new league and partner. Working with teams across Prime Video and with industry-leading broadcasters, we combine schedules, broadcast signals, and live sports data with AI that analyzes the game itself, so every event is in the right state at the right moment.

We're looking for a Senior SDE to set the multi-year technical direction for live event lifecycle and sports commerce: someone who wants to own the architecture, raise the bar for the engineers around them, and shape how AI drives live event management. We're an AI-native team: we use AI not just in the systems we ship, but in how we design, build, and operate them.

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.

About the team

We are deeply connected with the idea that live sports events are fundamentally different: there is only one shot at delivering the moment until it is forever lost. Our mission is to make sure that our customers never miss a single moment of the sports they love. To do this we need to deliver best-in-class live sports infrastructure, testing, monitoring, and operations to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences at scale. Our team engineers for speed, quality, availability, and scale. As Prime Video has grown, we've increased the depth and breadth of video products we support, with a corresponding increase in the associated size and complexity of our engineering activity and the load on our services. Our goal is to adapt our architecture to maintain and improve our velocity of delivery for customers in the face of these changes, and for our services to be on and error-free 24/7, especially for high-profile, exclusive content. With AI as a transformative force, we're at an inflection point that enables us to unlock new opportunities in predictive analytics, automated defect analysis and mitigation, and automated operations that were previously beyond our reach. 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

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