SDE - Prime Video Personalization: Machine Learning and Distributed Systems at Amazon
SDE - Prime Video Personalization: Machine Learning and Distributed Systems Details
June 27, 2019, 3:39 a.m.
Software Development
Seattle, Washington
in each team Amazon Video content
Amazon Video enables customers to instantly stream or download hundreds of thousands of titles, including new release movies and next-day TV shows. Customers discover Amazon Video content via the home page customers see when they log on into Amazon Video. However our catalog contains orders of magnitude more videos than can be displayed on a single page. And customers may have different interest from another one, or different interest at one time than at another. For example, a customer might like to watch movies on Friday nights but a TV show on weeknight and short videos on her smart phone during evenings when travelling home from work. Our mission is to eliminate the selection problem and reduce customers’ work in discovering videos by placing at the top of the page the right content that they would like to watch at that time on that device. We build a personalized home page experience tailored to individual customer tastes. We do this by learning through hundreds of different recommendation
· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience · Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design · 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems. · Degree in Computer Science or related field · 3+ years of technical experience as software developer, or related role · Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis ·