Amazon is hiring: Software Development Manager, Delivery Tech (Prime Video) in A

Software Development Manager, Delivery Tech (Prime Video)

Job ID: 2878339 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video leader, you will be responsible for collaborating with multiple CDN partners and delivering technology solutions required to provide state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers.

We are looking for a talented Software Development Manager to lead the development and deployment of scalable, automated Global Video Delivery Solutions (CDN capacity management, video delivery services, etc.). You will lead your team to design and deploy software that will benefit millions of customers globally. The ideal candidate is passionate about leading and building a strong software engineering team and is equally obsessed with delivering the best possible customer experiences. You will lead the team in defining software architecture and drive key performance and quality metrics for your team. You will communicate effectively with engineers, partners, leaders, and a broad set of stakeholders.

Customers love Prime Video, and we have a great opportunity to innovate on behalf of our customers. Your ability to make an impact will be directly related to how big your vision is for the team!

Key Job Responsibilities

What you'll do:

1. Define the long-term vision, strategy, and goals for your team.
2. Hire, manage, and grow a team of software engineers, including their projects, performance, and career growth.
3. Clearly communicate project roadmaps with your team, management, and principal stakeholders.
4. Collaborate with peers, product managers, and principal engineers to deliver highly impactful projects.
5. Drive continual architectural improvements to the efficiency and flexibility of the platform while keeping an extremely high bar on customer trust, performance, and availability.
6. Argue for the right outcomes with data, conviction, and diplomacy.

A Day in the Life

Working with the Product leader and your team leads to keep an eye on the implementation of strategic initiatives (CDN Capacity Management, Feature development, Re-engineering for scale, etc.). People management includes 1:1s with your team to keep a pulse on group morale and sub-team challenges. You will have strategic meetings with senior leadership (MBR, QBR, OP1, 3YP, Roadmap updates, etc.) and update leadership on relevant program statuses. Operations management involves reviewing production metrics and dashboards to monitor global video delivery for Prime Video.

About the Team

Prime Video Delivery is the team responsible for orchestrating the best content delivery experience for Prime Video customers. Whether a request is for video-on-demand or a live event, we strive to have sufficient capacity available for customers to ensure the highest quality viewing experience with zero buffering.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and live site operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

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