Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Live Events - Sports Data Platform

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Live Events - Sports Data Platform in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Software Development Engineer building scalable, low-latency data services and sports catalog platforms for Prime Video Live Events.

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Job description
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 Data Platform (SDP) team is responsible for the data powering the sports catalog that enables live sports experience for Prime Video customers worldwide. As an SDE on the SDP 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 data provider 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 data services that ingest, enrich, and publish data on live sports events, broadcasts, and associated content

* Build distributed systems to manage high-volume, low-latency user experiences 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.
We are the Prime Video Live Events team, and we’re looking for leaders to help revolutionize the way our customers discover and enjoy live events from sports, to music, to breaking news and political debates. We are expanding not just the breadth of live content we offer but also the depth of the experience. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be in the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video and the live streaming experience of customers everywhere.

Additional details for internal candidates
We are looking for motivated SDE who can help in building platform for delivering live video events to our customer. If you have experience building large-scale, high-performance, customer-friendly products and are interested in designing multi-tier services to handle large datasets, complex domains, and problems at Amazon scale, this is the job for you.

Basic qualifications
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ 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

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.

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Live Events - Sports Data Platform at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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Key facts

Software Development Engineer, Prime Video Live Events - Sports Data Platform is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on September 30, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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