Principal Software Engineer, Prime Video Commerce Tech
Core
Designing and evolving the end-to-end technical vision for Prime Video's global commerce platform, handling offers, pricing, and payments for hundreds of millions of customers across devices and regions.
Role type
Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Architecture)
Builds
Unified orchestration platform for Prime Video monetization (subscriptions, rentals, transactions) supporting millions of transactions per second.
Domain
Streaming media, global e-commerce, payments, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, system design at massive scale (millions of TPS), service-oriented architecture evolution, AI/GenAI integration, technical leadership without authority, hands-on coding and prototyping, resiliency engineering
Preferred skills
Global commerce/payments domain expertise, AI-native development practices, mentoring senior engineers, rapid experimentation with ML-driven systems, international expansion experience
Technologies
Distributed systems frameworks, AI/GenAI tooling, service orchestration platforms
Responsibilities
Lead technical direction for offer-to-payment architecture, drive multi-year architecture transformation, collaborate across organizations to align technical vision, mentor senior engineers, improve customer experience by reducing transaction failures, establish AI-native engineering practices
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence