Software Development Engineer, Prime Video, Content Understanding

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Not verified

Mental health support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Learning budget

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Verification

Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$144K-$194K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

45% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

Shift type

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Development Engineer, Prime Video, Content Understanding Seattle, Washington, USA Every piece of content a customer searches for on Prime Video is a discovery moment. Our team owns the AI agents and services that understand, index, and surface Prime Video's catalog - powering natural language search, AI-driven clip discovery, and intelligent question answering for hundreds of millions of customers across 240+ countries. You will own the systems that ingest and index catalog metadata at scale, the search infrastructure that translates natural language queries into relevant results in milliseconds, and the AI agents that reason over content to surface exactly the right clip or title for each customer. You will work at the intersection of large language models, semantic search, and real-time serving under strict latency constraints. This is Day 1 for AI-native content understanding, and search is where the customer experience begins. Key job responsibilities - Design, build, and own services that index and serve Prime Video catalog content to hundreds of millions of customers across 240+ countries - Build and evolve AI agents that combine LLM reasoning, semantic search, and real-time catalog lookups to power natural language content discovery - Develop search infrastructure that blends keyword, semantic, and web-based signals with LLM re-ranking to surface the most relevant titles and clips - Own the full lifecycle of services you build - from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence - Design and operate low-latency serving infrastructure that delivers search and clip results under strict availability constraints -

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