Want to change the way people watch Live Sports? Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Looking forward to work with a team of highly competent software engineers ranging from new graduates to seasoned architects building software using the latest technologies? Are you looking for an inclusive team, where you feel safe to be yourself, to share your ideas openly, to experiment, fail and learn, and where you help make decisions that shape the team’s path forward? If so, here is an opportunity tailored for you.
The Prime Video Sports Publishing (LEP) team is the owner, steward, and authority responsible for the sports catalog that powers the live sports experience for Prime Video customers worldwide. As an SDE-2 on the LEP team, you will play a pivotal role in building and operating the suite of services that fulfill our vision to be the world's richest, reliable and low latent catalog that enables sports fans worldwide to discover, purchase and consume sports content in any format, on any device.
If you are passionate about transforming the live sports streaming experience and have the technical expertise to build innovative solutions at scale, we'd love to have you join our team.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain core catalog services that ingest, enrich, and publish data on live sports events, broadcasts, and associated content
- Build distributed systems to manage high-volume, low-latency publishing workflows that ensure events are accurately represented and available to customers before, during, and after live broadcasts
- Develop tooling and automation to improve the efficiency, visibility, and reliability of live event publishing operations
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, content operations, and downstream distribution teams to continuously enhance the sports discovery and viewing experience
- Confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
- Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
- Champion best practices around software engineering, including designing, testing, monitoring
About the team
Sports Immersive Experience (SIE) is responsible for immersive experiences such as sports betting and fantasy sports, as well as powering sports pages with sports data. The team also owns a foundational Tier 1 sports edge services that powers team and league sports pages (NBA and MLB in 2025) while also acting as an enabler for features such as favorites. In addition to the sports edge service, this team is also responsible for PVLumina, a critical component of the Prime Video ecosystem, serving as a centralized backend service responsible for aggregating and delivering features to enhance in-playback experiences such as NextUp, Server Side Multi-View, Double Headers, Miro, and Timehop.
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