Senior Software Engineer, FTVX Team (Whole World)

Job description

Fire TV Catalog powers the content discovery experience for tens of millions of customers worldwide. At its core, the catalog must answer a deceptively hard question: is this the same movie, show, game, or clip across dozens of providers? The Matching team owns entity resolution — the system that groups provider items referring to the same real-world content into unified clusters. This is what makes it possible for a customer to see a single tile for a movie with rent, buy, and subscription options from multiple services side by side, rather than a fragmented wall of duplicates. Our matching pipeline processes tens-of-millions of records incrementally across single-host and distributed architectures, maintaining low end-to-end latency while handling complex deduplication across hundreds of content providers. We already leverage LLMs in production for match inference — using large language models to reason about whether two items represent the same content in cases where traditional signals are ambiguous or insufficient. As Fire TV expands into short-form video, live sports, and new entity types, the matching problem is evolving — traditional title/year/ID signals don't always apply...