Software Dev Engineer II, FTVX Team (whole World)

Software Engineer For Fire TV Catalog Services

Software engineer for Fire TV Catalog services will help build next-gen, low-latency systems to ingest, store, refine and deliver content for Fire TV Browse and Discovery experiences around events, apps, games and live sports around the world. Fire TV's core experience is highly engaging and innovative for movies and TV shows today. It is how millions of people watch, share, and enjoy TV every day. The systems that power this experience are undergoing a substantial revamp to extend this much-loved content-forward experience to linear programming, live events and sports. Linear programming continues to be a very large and active form of content streaming and engagement by customers worldwide, even with the acceleration of cord-cutting. Live sports accounted for 97 of the top-100 most watched broadcasts in the US in 2024. Future Fire TV experience will blur the boundaries between linear and VOD, live, on-demand and short-form.

This software engineer will join a team dedicated towards building highly scalable data processing and knowledge inference systems that process large media data, extract insights and sculpt bespoke broad industry data presentations into a uniform and enriched digital media catalog. Your customers will be both third-party digital content and metadata data providers as well as Fire TV end users. You will be responsible for developing new features and system components to help build new ways for consumers to engage with Fire TV. You will inform the team's roadmap, lead functional design efforts and help build systems that mutate and evolve elegantly with the changing trends of the streaming industry. You will work closely with product managers and other engineers to deliver key initiatives that impact millions of customers. Successful candidates will have deep familiarity with developing fast with the help of generative AI, and building efficient production solutions that can leverage LLMs to solve customer problems.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Create and improve software for content ingestion, curation and aggregation for FireTV devices
• Explore and deploy technologies including machine learning, distributed data processing, data processing at scale with high uptime and AWS-managed services to enable the development of breakthrough customer experiences.
• Contribute towards shaping the next-gen digital media catalog solution that drives best-in-class customer experience on FireTV.
• Review, scope and collaborate with team members to prioritize features requested by stakeholders or which are necessary to scale the cloud systems.
• Drive continuous improvements with the team's processes and practices.
• Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues that may impair the team's ability to deliver.
• Mentor junior engineers, and participate in the hiring process for open roles within our organization.
• Have some proficiency and maintain curiosity for leveraging AI for optimizing engineering responsibilities as well as delivering breakthrough customer experiences underpinned by advancements in generative AI.