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SDE III, PV Sports Lifecycle

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Compensation
$168–227K/yr
Location
Austin, TX
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Amazon’s Prime Video Sports team builds live sports experiences and infrastructure for streaming events at scale. The SDE III will lead the design and delivery of distributed services, guide team architecture and technical choices, resolve systemic issues, and mentor engineers. The team focuses on speed, quality, availability, testing, monitoring, and operations so customers do not miss live sports moments.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Distributed Systems DesignProgrammingSystem ArchitectureMentoringTechnical LeadershipSoftware Development LifecycleCoding StandardsCode ReviewsSource Control ManagementBuild ProcessesTestingOperations

Qualifications

5+ Years Software Development5+ Years Programming5+ Years Design or ArchitectureBachelor's in Computer Science or Equivalent

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Description

Love sports? Want to change the world? Prime Video is re-inventing the live sports experience by merging high-quality live streaming, immersive interactive features, and exclusive access to some of the world's most loved sports properties including the NFL, NBA, English Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, Roland-Garros (French Open), the US Open and more. Every day we face the challenges of a fast-paced market and expanding technology set. And we're building at a scale only Amazon is capable of. The Prime Video Sports team is a single-threaded-owner, uniquely positioned to execute our vision across the entire Prime Video stack to deliver the most compelling new experiences to our customers. If

this sounds like the type of experience you'd like to help build - apply here and let's chat!

Key job responsibilities

  1. Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of multi-tier distributed services and customer experiences across multiple engineers.

  2. Own team architecture—providing system-wide perspective, design guidance, and influencing future technology choices.

  3. Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces; understand business impact and make sound technical trade-offs between short-term and long-term needs.

  4. Identify and resolve root causes of endemic problems, including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams.

  5. Communicate technical designs and decisions effectively in writing, including for technical non-engineering audiences when required.

  6. Actively coach and mentor multiple engineers, fostering growth within and beyond your team.

  7. Drive adoption of engineering best practices—code organization, clarity, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.

  8. Collaborate effectively across a large organization (software development, QA, Project/Release Management, Build and Release, etc.) and create the right checkpoints with dependent teams to ensure successful delivery.

  9. Proactively identify architecture deficiencies and simplify existing systems and solutions.

  10. Deliver frequently and incrementally, balancing speed of delivery with building the right foundation for the future.

About the team

We are deeply connected with the idea that live sports events are fundamentally different: there is only one shot at delivering the moment until it is forever lost. Our mission is to make sure that our customers never miss a single moment of the sports they love. To do this we need to deliver best-in-class live sports infrastructure, testing, monitoring, and operations to optimize the delivery of live sports experiences at scale. Our team engineers for speed, quality, availability, and scale. As Prime Video has grown, we've increased the depth and breadth of video products we support, with a corresponding increase in the associated size and complexity of our engineering activity and the load on our services. Our goal is to adapt our architecture to maintain and improve our velocity of delivery for customers in the face of these changes, and for our services to be on and error-free 24/7, especially for high-profile, exclusive content. With AI as a transformative force, we're at an inflection point that enables us to unlock new opportunities in predictive analytics, automated defect analysis and mitigation, and automated operations that were previously beyond our reach.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How this job compares

Set against the 1,367 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$168–227K/yr
  • Texas median$144–194K/yr85 salary ranges
  • US median$144–194K/yr1,239 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $198K, is 17% above the Texas median midpoint ($169K) — in the top quarter of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in Texas.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 97 open Software Development Engineer jobs in Texas and 1,367 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Texas
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,216 postings).
Education
593 of the 1,367 open Software Development Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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