Software Development Engineer

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Live Events Discovery team in Israel. Our team owns and operates tier-1 services that are critical to Prime Video's live sports business, serving millions of customers globally with strict availability and latency requirements. We are responsible for connecting customers to live sports experiences through content discovery and personalization. Our service powers the carousels and content discovery features across Prime Video's home page, sports pages, and subscription pages.

This role offers the opportunity to work on services where every decision matters - from architectural choices to caching strategies to error handling - because our services are in the critical path for customer experience during the biggest moments in sports.

Key job responsibilities:
- Build architecture and feature development for our Tier-1 service.
- Build and maintain highly resilient distributed systems that handle millions of requests during peak live sports events.
- Design and implement sophisticated content curation and filtering logic that integrates with multiple upstream services for entitlements, blackouts, recommendations, and playability.
- Partner with other engineers to ideate, design, and build scalable solutions.
- Tackle complex technical challenges across the stack - from service APIs to data orchestration.

As a member of our team, you will:
- Own and operate mission-critical, Tier-1 services with stringent availability and performance requirements.
- Build and scale high-throughput, low-latency content discovery services deployed across multiple AWS regions globally.
- Drive operational excellence for services during peak live sports events.
- Architect solutions that integrate with multiple upstream services for content filtering, entitlements, blackouts, and recommendations.
- Work on intelligent content curation systems that surface the right live sports content to the right customers at the right time.
- Collaborate with merchandising, recommendation, and content teams to deliver personalized sports discovery experiences.